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crizCraig on Sept 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: More information on Google's new web language, Das...

In python nested functions must be declared before calling them. Also stuff like this seems to crop up on me when I ry using closures: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2516652/scoping-problem-i...

riffraff on Sept 10, 2011 [–]

that is what I meant as having a better syntax for anonymous functions. I agree it's bad (even with nonlocal in python 3) but that is not a matter of different scoping rules, it's only syntax.

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