On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:31 AM, spir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:denis.spir@free.fr">denis.spir@free.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>> We can nevertheless assume, as there was no further debate on this<br>> point, that in most cases and/or for most programmers these actions<br>
> have a different meaning.<br><br>Please don't assume. Just because people don't state their disagreements does not mean they agree.<br><br>I found the statement that binding and rebinding are "obviously" different to be clearly NOT obvious and not a particularly practical distinction and really not worth discussing. I only respond to this to prevent the meme that "everyone agrees" with this from propagating.<br>
<br>There *is* something in Python related to this that I find obviously different and that's local and global variables. I would prefer that all global variables have to be included in a global declaration. I dislike the fact that an assignment to a variable changes other references to that same name from local to global references. This sort of feels like "spooky action at a distance" to me.<br>
<br>--- Bruce<br>