[Python-Dev] [poll] New name for builtins (original) (raw)

Neil Toronto ntoronto at cs.byu.edu
Thu Nov 29 12:06:45 CET 2007

Christian Heimes wrote:

Greg Ewing wrote:

uberglobal Since Python 3.0 supports all unicode chars I vote for überglobal.

Make it untypeable to most Americans so as to discourage use? If that's what we're going for, I suggest the somewhat more self-documenting and less impossible the_dictionary_where_all_the_builtins_are_now.

Seriously, though, I really liked universal. It's part of a theme: local < global < universal, and it communicates itself well. root and its ilk don't bring anything concrete to mind, just abstract trees. I don't think of namespaces as trees when I'm coding a function - they're more like layers or overlays at that level.

So, a +0.01 from me (after weighting for lurkerhood) for universal.

Neil

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