[Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?) (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Jul 5 00:25:38 CEST 2006

At 12:18 AM 7/5/2006 +0200, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I don't see anything else that's attractive. The realistic options are:

1. do nothing 2. extend global's meaning 3. add outer keyword

Did you also consider and reject:

Alternate binding operators (e.g. ":=", ".=", etc.)
Alternate spelling of outer names when binding (e.g. ".x = whatever" to bind an outer x)

If so, then these should probably be added to the "rejected alternatives" for Py3K so they don't get rehashed.