[Python-Dev] Lexical scoping in Python 3k (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Jul 2 05:26:48 CEST 2006
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Neil Schemenauer wrote:
The := would assign but not declare a variable in the current scope.
There are other benefits to such a statement, too, since we can make it similar to other augmented assignments by letting the object being assigned to interfere with the process.
a := 2
could translate to something like:
a = a.assign(2)
with the default behaviour of assign simply being:
def assign(rhs) return rhs
This gives you:
- runtime checking for typos (you can't accidentally declare a new variable with := when you really meant to assign to an existing one)
- if/when control flow analysis is added to the AST compiler, it will be picked up as an error at compile time along with the other augmented assignments
- the object being assigned to can validate/modify its replacement (e.g. automatically wrapping it in a weakref proxy, or checking that it has the correct type)
Cheers, Nick.
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