>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.
But it doesn't mean "top-level" - it already comes with the qualifier "module". Even after nearly a decade of python use, I still find that slightly unnatural, and changing "global" to mean "enclosing scope" feels only slightly more unnatural. -- Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft http://www.object-craft.com.au/ _______________________________________________ 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
