Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: scope of function parameters References: <4de2dab8$0$29996$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87pqn17z4a.fsf@benfinney.id.au> X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 12:08:46 +1000 Message-ID: <87lixp7xe9.fsf@benfinney.id.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GDtGEY4eMXNVeIiGK4r5S9tOiXM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 17 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: fb1c78d0.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=OoTNkoA^5BjJRZZkg^aP1jL?0kYOcDh@jW\:Hm@YlDbjZJTf[AfkkHmUGD@iN[Hd?o>Wc?5UEiH[l Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:6610 Chris Angelico writes: > Of course, there's a significant difference between a mailing list > post and a detailed and well copyedited article. Quite frequently I'll > ramble on list, in a way quite inappropriate to a publication that > would be linked to as a "hey guys, here's how it is" page. Different > media, different standards. Right. But Steven specifically asked for constructive criticism, which I took as permission to treat the referenced post as an article in need of copy editing :-) -- \ “The truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize | `\ it.” —Mark Twain, _Following the Equator_ | _o__) | Ben Finney