[djmetzle]

Oh no. oh no no. Do you have examples of languages without the usual local scope binding semantics?

I think the example here is misleading and causing confusion.

[chaxor]

I believe Wolfram Mathematica has this terrible global scoping by default.

It's not exactly a language that programmers refer to often, as it's not really general purpose, but I had to do some work with MRI data in it and I hated it mostly due to the scoping.

An "I spent a decent bit of time rewriting the entire lab's codebase in python" type of hate.

[Macha]

Javascript and C.

Neither are considered pinnacles of language design.

[kevinmgranger]

Javascript requires explicit variable declaration if you're bringing it to a new scope, though. Which is to say:

    var s = "Geeksforgeeks";
    function f_global() {
        s = "Me too";
    }
    // is different from
    function f_local() {
        var s = "Me too";
    }

[sgc]

I like that better (and I realize I might be alone!). But I don't like that you can declare a global variable in a local function by omitting the var. It's a similar needless ambiguity and frankly much more prone to errors than the python local variable initialization. At least there is strict mode.