declaring variants/subports in loops and loop variables

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Wednesday December 07 2016 18:35:04 Brandon Allbery wrote:

> (iirc you can get into the same mess with python 2, although maybe not in
> 2.7)

My experience with Python (even from the rather early 2.x days in the late 90s) is that it's always been very strict about scoping and closures. But I don't think I've ever used it to write self-modifying code (maybe not exactly what we're discussing here, but it's certainly evoked in my mind).

R.