Steven Bethard wrote: > Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > >>Would it help at all to survey some folks to see how many interpret >>"global variable" to mean "top-level" vs. "anything nonlocal"? > > I don't think that'll really be worth it. I'd be amazed if people > didn't expect it to mean "top-level".
Another confounding factor could be how familiar the respondent is with languages that have more than two scopes in the first place. If most of their programming experience is with C, they're likely to equate global with top-level simply because there's no other possibility in C. Besides, the BDFL is going to do whatever he wants anyway, so let's just leave him to get on with it. :-) -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
