On 11/1/06, Neil Toronto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > > I have finally completed a draft of a PEP on rebinding of names > > in outer scopes. I've tried to go back and gather all of the > > (amazingly numerous) proposals -- if i've forgotten or misattributed > > any, let me know and i'll be happy to correct them.
> It's beautiful. Like Michael said, an impressive amount of history. Agreed. > I wondered about this specifically: > > > A shorthand form is also permitted, in which nonlocal is prepended to > > an assignment or augmented assignment statement: > > > > nonlocal x = 3 > > Is a similar statement for globals legal in Py3k? It's not in 2.4 > (according to my own testing) or 2.5 (according to the grammar). The > syntax for 'global' and 'nonlocal' should be almost identical. It's been proposed and I would endorse it. My personal preference is still to abuse 'global' instead of adding a new, ugly keyword. That would make the syntax for global and nonlocal completely identical. :-) But I seem to be alone in this preference. :-( -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
