[Python-3000] Draft PEP for outer scopes

[Jan Grant]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Steven Bethard wrote:

> I don't think that'll really be worth it.  I'd be amazed if people
> didn't expect it to mean "top-level". The real question is, if people
> see something like this::
> 
>     def f():
>         n = 0
>         def g(i):
>             global n
>             n += i
>         return g
>     func = f()
>     print func(), func()
> 
> what would they expect it to do?

Set "n" in the scope of "func", assuming func is top-level. That global 
is already a lie isn't a feature.

I'd rather see "outer" than "global" but even that can be understood to 
mean "outermost" rather than "the next one out".

jan

PS. If you're hunting for keywords to overload to drag variables into scope, 
"import" is also available, although would probably be very hard to make 
work.

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