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

Ka-Ping Yee python-dev at zesty.ca
Tue Jul 11 05:58:32 CEST 2006


On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

The current use of global meets the requirements. The meaning there is clear, because global means global namespace. If purple were a keyword, I wouldn't know what it means. I was not proposing the use of global for some other meaning (and thought I made that clear in the remainder of the message).

My apologies. I misunderstood you -- i thought you were suggesting it as an alternative to "nonlocal".

-- ?!ng



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