[Python-Dev] Using and binding relative names (was Re: PEP for Better Control of Nested Lexical Scopes) (original) (raw)

Almann T. Goo almann.goo at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 08:15:20 CET 2006

On 2/26/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Alternatively, 'global' could be redefined to mean what we're thinking of for 'outer'. Then there would be no change in keywordage.

There would be potential for breaking code, but I suspect the actual amount of breakage would be small, since there would have to be 3 scopes involved, with something in the middle one shadowing a global that was referenced in the inner one with a global statement. Given the rarity of global statement usage to begin with, I'd say that narrows things down to something well within the range of acceptable breakage in 3.0.

You read my mind--I made a reply similar to this on another branch of this thread just minutes ago :).

I am curious to see what the community thinks about this.

-Almann

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