<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Hylton</b> <<a href="mailto:jeremy@alum.mit.edu">jeremy@alum.mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 7/10/06, Ka-Ping Yee <<a href="mailto:python-dev@zesty.ca">python-dev@zesty.ca</a>> wrote:<br>> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 <a href="mailto:skip@pobox.com">skip@pobox.com</a> wrote:<br>> > I think Talin's got a point though. It seems hard to find one short English
<br>> > word that captures the essence of the desired behavior. None of the words<br>> > in his list seem strongly suggestive of the meaning to me. I suspect that<br>> > means one's ultimately as good (or as bad) as the rest.
<br>><br>> What's wrong with "nonlocal"? I don't think i've seen an argument<br>> against that one so far (from Talin or others).<br><br>It's a made-up word. You won't find it in the dictionary and the
<br>google define: query sends me to a wikipedia page about quantum<br>mechanics. It also expresses itself in the negative form "not local"<br>as opposed to the positive form like global "this is a global."
<br>Finally, I think it sounds yucky.<br><br>To express this email in the positive form:<br>1. Reserved words should be real words.<br>2. The meaning of the word should be clear.<br>3. "Put statements in positive form." (Strunk & White)
<br>4. The word should sound good.<br><br>global meets all of these requirements. "free" was the word I<br>remember preferring from earlier discussions, but I think it fails #2.<br> (Too much confusion about freeing memory, for example.)
</blockquote><div><br><br>I remember previous discussions also referring to spelling this as "outer" which IMO passes #2 as well as the other, although arguably #4 is subjective ;-).<br><br>-Almann<br></div></div>
<br>-- <br>Almann T. Goo<br><a href="mailto:almann.goo@gmail.com">almann.goo@gmail.com</a>