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Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"

Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"

Posted Feb 6, 2013 19:08 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?" by jgon
Parent article: Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"

> 6) Hate sensible lexical scope. No big deal, it's only been 50+ years since Algol introduced it, why would we need it in 2013? For loops should always be confusing to deal with.

To be fair, Python also has function scoping. Though it is saved in that variables are local by default.


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