[Python-ideas] Tweaking closures and lexical scoping to include the function being defined

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On 27 September 2011 21:38, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
[...]
> As I remember, the idea foundered because it was thought
> too confusing to have an expression that was written
> inside the function but evaluated outside of it. If
> we're seriously considering the current proposal,
> presumably we've gotten over that? Or is it still a
> valid objection?

I have been reading this thread from the start and FWIW, it's
something that I have been feeling uncomfortable about.  I value the
guarantee that no code in the body of a def statement is executed when
the def statement itself is executed.  This proposal would break this
guarantee.

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Arnaud