A counter-counter-proposal for PEP 236: #pragma( nested_scopes)

[Warren Postma]

Sallied for Warren:
> > Has anyone considered borrowing a C notation:
> >
> > #pragma( nested_scopes )
> >
> > Benefits:
> >     - It's a comment therefore it doesn't break anything else.

Thusly spake Peter:
> But that's dead-wrong behavior for future_statements.  If your module
needs
> nested_scopes semantics, it will do unpredictable wrong things at runtime
if
> it doesn't get them.  That's why PEP 236 is emphatically *not* a "pragma"
> proposal.

Hmm.  I wonder how many people would be happier with this syntax

from __twilightzone__ import nested_scopes

<grin>

Warren