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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:02:00 +0200
From: Jan Kuiken <jan.kuiken@quicknet.nl>
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On 8/23/12 06:11 , Steven D'Aprano wrote:

>> 2) Related to the above, you can infinitely nest scopes. There's nothing
>> wrong with having six variables called 'q'; you always use the innermost
>> one. Yes, this can hurt readability
>
> Well, there you go. There *is* something wrong with having six variables
> called 'q'.

Sometimes you don't want only six variables called 'q' but a hundred
of them :-)

   def fac(q):
       if q < 1 :
           return 1
       else:
           return q * fac(q-1)

   print(fac(100))


Jan Kuiken