Replacement for keyword 'global' good idea? (e.g. 'modulescope' or 'module' better?)

John Roth newsgroups at jhrothjr.com
Fri Aug 5 21:29:06 EDT 2005


<seberino at spawar.navy.mil> wrote in message 
news:1123270841.195692.21470 at g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I've heard 2 people complain that word 'global' is confusing.
>
> Perhaps 'modulescope' or 'module' would be better?
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> Am I the first peope to have thought of this and suggested it?
>
> Is this a candidate for Python 3000 yet?
>
> Chris

A much better idea would be to fix the underlying
situation that makes the global statement necessary.

I doubt if this is going to happen either, though.

John Roth
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