[Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/7/06, Just van Rossum <just at letterror.com> wrote:
> Why couldn't at least augmented assignment be implicitly rebinding?

Well, personally I'm for allowing full rebinding semantics but only
when a 'global' (or 'nonlocal') statement is used first. Making
augmented assignment automatically imply 'global' etc. seems too
magical to me.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)