1. Nested functions should inherit constants and static locals from parent scopes, but not automatic local variables. At the moment the former works, but when trying to (incorrectly) use a local variable from an outer scope in an inner function, the compiler crashes: example :: () { x := 42; x′ :: 69; static x″ := 420; foo :: () int { return x; } /* not fine; breaks */ bar :: () int { return x′; } /* totally fine */ baz :: () int { return x″; } /* totally fine */ } This is presumably due to the compiler maintaining a single tree of scopes where a scope contains information for both constants and variables. If this is indeed the cause, then there should most probably be separate scope-trees; one which has scopes for constants, and one which has scopes for variables. 2. Recursive functions crash the compiler. foo :: () { return foo(); } /* breaks */ 3. Variable shadowing breaks when you create a local variable with the same name as the parent function, failing with a circular-dependency: foo :: () { foo := 5; } This is not an issue with nested functions: foo :: () { bar :: () { foo := 5; } } 4. The following code breaks for a yet unknown reason. This will perhaps be automatically resolved when the scoping issues are ironed out when bug #1 is fixed. X :: 42; foo :: () { bar :: () int { return X; } x := bar(); }