[Python-Dev] replacing 'global' (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Oct 27 20:48:21 EST 2003


Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com>:

My slight preference for leaving += and friends alone is that a function using them to rebind nonlocals would be hard to read

Using my "outer" suggestion, augmented assignments to nonlocals would be written

outer x += 1

which would make the intention pretty clear, I think.

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