variable declaration

[Alex Martelli]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

> > which is good news for sellers of books, tools, training, consultancy
> > services, and for Python programmers everywhere -- more demand always
> > helps.  *BUT* the price is eternal vigilance...
> 
> I'm not sure what that last sentence is supposed to mean, but I have 

You seem to...:

> visions (nightmares?) of someday having ANSI, ISO, IEEE, or some other such
> organization notice that something useful exists which they haven't yet
> standardized/broken and decide to form a committee to do it.

...so we'd better be careful (==eternal vigilance)...


Alex