In my opinion, there are far bigger problems with pythons scoping. Why is for/if/etc not it's own scope? You can define a temporary variable in there and mistak

In my opinion, there are far bigger problems with pythons scoping. Why is for/if/etc not it's own scope? You can define a temporary variable in there and mistakenly use it somewhere down the line. In a "for i in ..", the i should be cleared after the loop but it isn't. Why can't you create a new scope within a function? This allows you to bundle related stuff together and be sure the scope is cleared afterwards, so as to not mistakenly reuse variables. The thing that you're promoting as an advantage of explicit self is already broken by having a single scope for the whole function. Blocks like this are an imensely useful way to keep scopes clean: int someMethod(){ ... { // some small stuff that doesn't warrant a new method but you don't want it to bleed into the remaining part of the function, e.g.: float x = readNextFloat(); float y = readNextFloat(); float z = readNextFloat(); float length = sqrt(x*x + y*y + z*z); cout << length; } // do some other things without worrying about potentially initialized variables ... }