[Python-Dev] Scope, not context? (was Re: PEP 550 v3 naming) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 24 19:34:48 EDT 2017

Barry Warsaw wrote:

This is my problem with using "Context" for this PEP. Although I can't keep up with all names being thrown around,

Not sure whether it helps, but a similar concept in some Scheme dialects is called a "fluid binding".

e.g. Section 5.4 of http://www.scheme.com/csug8/binding.html

It's not quite the same thing as we're talking about here (the names bound exist in the normal name lookup scope rather than a separate namespace) but maybe some of the terminology could be adapted.

-- Greg

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