[Python-Dev] closure semantics

[Greg Ewing]

> It would break any unadorned 'global x' in a nested scope if the name
> did not exist anywhere.
> 
> One option would be to have an "if the name doesn't exist, it it
> created in module scope".

What would be wrong with that? It's what I had in mind.

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