[Python-Dev] closure semantics

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> >     def inner():
> >        outer.x = 42
> 
> Because this already means something!

Hmmm, maybe

   x of outer = 42

Determined-to-get-an-'of'-into-the-language-somehow-ly,

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