[Python-ideas] Tweaking closures and lexical scoping to include the function being defined

[Paul Moore]

On 28 September 2011 16:38, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Of course once there's different syntax, the nonlocal declaration in
> the function is redundant. And clearly I'm back-peddling. :-)

If we're back to syntax proposals on the def statement, how about

def fn() with i=1, lock=Lock():
   whatever

? This is basically another bikeshed to paint, though...

Paul.