[nknight]

Unusual scoping rules that are easily worked around do not make Python's closures not closures. And I'm not sure why you're bringing up lambda -- I don't know anyone who uses it much, and I consider it an obfuscation mechanism rather than a useful tool.

As for your personal attacks on me... I dispute statements you made that I consider to be utterly wrong, and you say I'm "getting offended" and "trolling"? Now I'm offended.

I look up and down the comments on here and I see all sorts of people making blanket statements about how great Scheme is, yet when I argue a couple specific points you brought up about Python, I'm being the partisan troll? WTF?