[Python-Dev] just trying to catch up with the semantic

Barry A. Warsaw barry@digicool.com
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:21:37 -0500


>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com> writes:

    GvR>     To resolve a name, search from the inside out for either
    GvR> a scope that contains a global statement for that name, or a
    GvR> scope that contains a definition for that name (or both).

I think that's an excellent rule Guido -- hopefully it's captured
somewhere in the docs. :)  I think it yields behavior that both easily
discovered by visual code inspection and easily understood.

-Barry