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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 22 08:11:40 CET 2006

Just van Rossum wrote:

Btw, PJE's "crazy" idea (.name, to rebind an outer name) was proposed before, but Guido wanted to reserve .name for a (Pascal-like) 'with' statement. Hmm,

I guess that doesn't apply any more, since we've already used "with" for something else.

Regardless, names with leading dots just look ugly and perlish to me, so I wouldn't be in favour anyway.

-- Greg

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