global and None

Paul McGuire ptmcg at austin.rr.com
Wed Dec 24 08:57:10 EST 2003


> Hmm, I hadn't thought of that.  If this is a use case, aren't the
> restrictions placed on global in the specs rather encumbering, and should
be
> removed? (Well, except for for-loop targets and formal parameters.)  As it
> is, to comply, you'd have to use a temporary name for construction, and
then
> assign to the global name.
> --
> Francis Avila
>
¿Que?

What needs to be changed? See the example code that I posted.  This is
exactly where "global" makes sense.

-- Paul






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