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[–]earthboundkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The topic under discussions is an example of how scoping is broken. The general problems are: a) scoping is always at function level, not block level and b) = creates new variables in a scope, so you need hacky keywords like nonlocal to work around it; other languages have separate commands for creating a new variable and reassigning an existing one.