Nov. 5, 2003
10:29 p.m.
Alex Martelli wrote:
So it can't be global, as it must stay a keyword for backwards compatibility at least until 3.0.
[David]
Why? Removing keywords should be much simpler than adding them. I have no idea how hard it is to hack the parser to adjust, but I can't imagine how having 'global' no longer be a keyword as far as its concerned break b/w compatibility.
What am I missing?
I don't recall the context, but I think the real issue with removing 'global' is that there's too much code out there that uses the global syntax to remove the global statement before 3.0. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)