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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: controlled type in generic package?
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Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:

> Unless it has changed since I last used it (~ v1.5), Python does not have
> nested scopes, so it's relatively flat. Even C has nested scopes, just not 
> nested function definitions. 

I think you can pass around scopes freely with a few hacks. ;-)

> Ada allows you to define classes at arbitrarily deep levels of
> scope. Python doesn't even allow you to create deeper levels of scope. 

Even this can be solved with current Python versions.  I even used
such a trick in production code, but it's certainly ugly.