Guido wrote: > 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.
Brett wrote: > Seeing Guido have a sad face is enough to force me to have an opinon. I > personally always viewed 'global' as "this variable is not local", so making > it truly mean that works for me. I'm convinced that "global variable" means top-level for most programmers and so this usage would be confusing -- but i think we're all just repeating what we've said before. Would it help at all to survey some folks to see how many interpret "global variable" to mean "top-level" vs. "anything nonlocal"? -- ?!ng _______________________________________________ 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
