"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > From what I can tell, the only thing that your 'var' keyword does is
> > ambiguate the global vs. local case,
>
> No, it can select between any of outer scopes.
No. It can't select between *any* of the outer scopes, only those
scopes that have previously existing *names* that one wants to modify,
and really, only the deepest nested scope with a 'var' declaration.
It is no better, semantically, then just using a list. In fact, by
virtue of breaking currently working code, and making it visually
ambiguous, it is worse. As Jim Jewett stated, using a list "is at least
strange enough to warn people that they need to read carefully."
> It also allows to put globals in an array instead of a dictionary,
> making them as fast as locals.
No, it doesn't.
import foo
#foo.a didn't exist before
foo.a = x
#foo.a exists now
This kind of thing was stated in the earlier thread about making globals
as fast as locals.
- Josiah
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