On Jun 24, 2:51 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Since that global statement is utterly useless > (it's impossible to read and understand any substantial amount of Python > code without realizing that accessing a variable not locally assigned > means you're accessing a global, so the "self-documenting" character > claimed for that redundancy is quite fallacious), it IS perfectly > suitable to take away, and so it's at least a serious imperfection.
Allow me a pun: self is pretty self-documenting. With Python 3.0 we finally get even two declarations for accessing a name for assignment from an outer scope. Maybe the Python Zen should be altered in the following way: - Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! + Accessor declaratives are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
