On 1 March 2018 at 06:40, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Since ".NAME" is illegal for both variable and attribute names, this makes >> the fact statement locals are a distinct namespace visible to readers as >> well as to the compiler, and also reduces the syntactic ambiguity in with >> statements and exception handlers. > > I've mentioned this in the alternate syntaxes, but I don't like having > to state a variable's scope in its name. Python doesn't force us to > adorn all global names with a character, and the difference between > function-local and statement-local is generally less important than > the difference between global and function-local. But it IS a viable > syntax, and I'm saying so in the PEP.
Agreed. This feels far to much like Perl's "sigils" that attach to a name ($var is a scalar, @var is a list, etc). Strong -1 from me. Although I *do* agree that such decoration gets rid of a lot of the worst ambiguities in the proposal. But if we're being asked to choose the lesser of 2 evils, my response is "neither" :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
