[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v3 naming (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Aug 22 23:51:02 EDT 2017

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

We could do worse than just plain Context and ContextStack, for that matter.

I worry that that's going to lead more people astray thinking this has something to do with contextlib, which it really doesn't (it's much more closely related to threading.local()).

Regarding DynamicAnything, I certainly saw it and didn't like it -- the only place where I've ever seen dynamic scoping was in Emacs Lisp, and I believe was first shown to me as anti-pattern thirty years ago.

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