[Python-Dev] closure semantics

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Tue Oct 21 19:51:05 EDT 2003


Guido van Rossum wrote:

> [...]
> Walter suggested 'global.x = 23' which looks reasonable; unfortunately
> my parser can't do this without removing the existing global statement
> from the Grammar: after seeing the token 'global' it must be able to
> make a decision about whether to expand this to a global statement or
> an assignment without peeking ahead, and that's impossible.

Couldn't this be solved by making 'global<whitespace>.' a token?

Should {get|has}attr(global, 'foo') be possible?

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald





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