Using lists as fake value boxes in python because python doesn't know how to lexical scope
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This is also why implementing let in Hy is so complex.
Python 3 has the 'nonlocal' keyword that does exactly what you want (if you inserted "nonlocal x" as the first line of _func(), it would do the right thing)... but, well, you don't get it unless you switch to Python 3.
Screwtape at 2015-10-17T08:02:19Z
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Ah! Okay that's helpful :)
@Christopher Allan Webber Thank you for the thorough explanation!
Charles Stanhope at 2015-10-17T15:04:41Z
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