[Python-Dev] PEP for Better Control of Nested Lexical Scopes (original) (raw)

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Tue Feb 21 19:47:04 CET 2006


Almann T. Goo <almann.goo at gmail.com> wrote:

1. Adding a keyword such as "use" that would follow similar semantics as " global" does today. A nested scope could declare names with this keyword to enable assignment to such names to change the closest parent's binding.

+0, and I like "outer". I like the idea, but I grepped several Python programs I wrote, and found out that I used the list trick many times, but almost always in quick-hack code in unittests. I wasn't able to find a single instance of this in real code I wrote, so I can't really be +1.

Giovanni Bajo



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