[Haskell-cafe] Python?

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Quinn Dunkan <qdunkan at gmail.com> writes:

> Python has first class functions and lexical scoping, and encourages
> higher-order functions, though to a much lesser degree than a real
> functional language.

It's lexical scoping is limited:

- The syntax can be heavy, as you can't embed a function containing
  statements inside an expression.

- Because of implicit variable definitions (and lack of other syntax
  which could change that) you can't modify variables introduced by
  outer functions.

- Class definitions don't use lexical scoping (definitions introduced
  in a class body are not visible as unqualified names by their bodies).

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