[Python-Dev] PEP 435: pickling enums created with the functional API

[Xavier Morel]

On 2013-05-07, at 17:03 , Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
> Specifically, what I'm talking about is some kind of implicit context
> similar to the approach the decimal module uses to control operations
> on Decimal instances.

Wouldn't it be a good occasion to add actual, full-fledged and correctly
implemented (and working) dynamically scoped variables? Or extending
exceptions to signals (in the Smalltalk/Lisp sense) providing the same
feature?