[Python-ideas] nonlocal functions

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

2009/10/21 Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net>:

>> If not, why single out assignment as a
>> special case that requires an explicit declaration of "Yes, I really do
>> want to create a new local here"?
>
> Because in all those other cases, the fact that you "really do want to
> create a new local here" is part of the statement's semantics. Why repeat
> it?

Actually in the other cases an existing variable is assigned if it was
already defined in the current scope, or it is defined if it was not -
like in the assignment syntax.

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Marcin Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl