exactly that. Without wanting to analyze it in too much depth now, I would want a local keyword to allow me to know I was protecting my variables, and a way to specify other scopes, without so much implied scoping in non-intuitive ways...
Now everybody is gonna tell me how wrong I am, but you asked what I want, and that's what keeps aggrevating me with python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
