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

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Thu Nov 29 12:36:15 CET 2007

Neil Toronto wrote:

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 thedictionarywhereallthebuiltinsarenow.

:) OK, let's get serious again.

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.

You are making a very good point! Thank you, you have added a new perspective to the discussion. :)

I tend to agree that local, nonlocal, global and the-other-thingie are more like the layers of an onion than a tree. It makes sense to me. The name lookup starts at the local level and goes all the way out until it reaches the universal level. Or does it go in until it reaches the core of the onion? It's a matter of perspective. universal or core ?

Christian

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