March 9, 2006
6:17 p.m.
* Paul Moore wrote:
If it *is* possible, I'd say it's worth implementing at least a warning sooner rather than later - the practice seems questionable at best, and any progress towards outlawing it would help in work on optimising builtins.
</lurk> FWIW, this practice is very handy for unit tests. For example, I often shadow builtins like ``file`` for my tests with a mock placed from the outside into the global namespace. nd <lurk> -- "Das Verhalten von Gates hatte mir bewiesen, dass ich auf ihn und seine beiden Gefährten nicht zu zählen brauchte" -- Karl May, "Winnetou III" Im Westen was neues: <http://pub.perlig.de/books.html#apache2>