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It is a combination of scoping, which other people already wrote about, and also because the language support mutable data by default. Had the language been immutable/persistent by default, this particular semantic problem cannot occur in the first place.

Complexity increases rapidly when you combine constructs in a programming language. You get some feature interactions which are hard to get right, and also to predict.



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