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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jul 7 22:24:22 CEST 2006


On 7/7/06, Just van Rossum <just at letterror.com> wrote:

Why couldn't at least augmented assignment be implicitly rebinding?

Well, personally I'm for allowing full rebinding semantics but only when a 'global' (or 'nonlocal') statement is used first. Making augmented assignment automatically imply 'global' etc. seems too magical to me.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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