[Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?)

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> The current use of global meets the requirements.  The meaning there
> is clear, because global means global namespace.  If purple were a
> keyword, I wouldn't know what it means.  I was not proposing the use
> of global for some other meaning (and thought I made that clear in the
> remainder of the message).

My apologies.  I misunderstood you -- i thought you were suggesting
it as an alternative to "nonlocal".


-- ?!ng