[Python-Dev] replacing 'global'
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Mon Oct 27 21:55:57 EST 2003
> If we adopt a method of nonlocal assignment that allows the
> deprecation of "global", then we have a chance to change this,
> if we think that such "at-a-distance" rules are undesirable
> in general.
>
> Do we think that?
Alex certainly seems to be arguing this, but I think it's a lost cause.
Even Alex will have to accept the long-distance effect of
def f():
x = 42
.
. (hundreds of lines of unrelated code)
.
print x
And at some point in the future Python *will* grow (optional) type
declarations for all sorts of things (arguments, local variables,
instance variables) and those will certainly have effect at a
distance.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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