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Discussion on: What language features/concepts do insiders of the language love and outsiders hate?

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Evan Oman

But var doesn't exist on line 3!! I know different rules for different languages, but allowing this would drive me crazy (esp. if you are just saving an explicit var = null statement)

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Idan Arye

Then you'll love this:

with open('foo.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write('hello world\n')
f.write('also hello world\n')  # f is closed by still in scope!

Thing is, with dynamic languages this doesn't really matter - it's not like if it had stricter scoping rules it'd fail to compile...