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Can assigment statements within a function body affect the global frame?
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assignment statements within a function body cannot affect the global frame

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Can assigment statements within a function body affect the global frame?
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Can assigment statements within a function body affect the global frame?
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assignment statements within a function body cannot affect the global frame
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The effect of an assignment statement is to bind a name to a value in the first frame of the current environment. As a consequence, assignment statements within a function body cannot affect the global frame. The fact that functions can only manipulate their local environment is critical to creating modular programs, in which pure functions interact only via the values they take and return.

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put: Global percent_difference result 25.0 percent_difference x 40 y 50 difference 10 Returnvalue 25.0 func percent_difference(x, y) <span>The effect of an assignment statement is to bind a name to a value in the first frame of the current environment. As a consequence, assignment statements within a function body cannot affect the global frame. The fact that functions can only manipulate their local environment is critical to creating modular programs, in which pure functions interact only via the values they take and return. Of course, the percent_difference function could be written as a single expression, as shown below, but the return expression is more complex. >>> def percent_difference(

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