[Python-3000] Draft PEP for outer scopes

[Ka-Ping Yee]

I wrote:
> I'm convinced that "global variable" means top-level for most
> programmers and so this usage would be confusing -- but i think we're
> all just repeating what we've said before.

Andrew McNamara wrote:
> But it doesn't mean "top-level" - it already comes with the qualifier
> "module".

This is exactly what "global variable" means in C, Perl, JavaScript,
Ruby, etc.

The global scope is the widest scope in which you can declare a variable.


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