[Python-Dev] replacing 'global'
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Oct 27 20:48:21 EST 2003
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com>:
> My slight preference for leaving += and friends alone is that
> a function using them to rebind nonlocals would be hard to
> read
Using my "outer" suggestion, augmented assignments to
nonlocals would be written
outer x += 1
which would make the intention pretty clear, I think.
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