What's up with rebinding assignment?

[Beni Cherniavsky]

John Roth wrote on 2003-03-21:

> Two (or maybe three) thoughts.
>
> 1. I'd be very strongly against it, unless it was limited to static
>    scoping.

Yes, yes, yes, of course not dynamic, what am I crazy <wink>?

> I can think of uses for this, but allowing any function to modify
> variables further up in the calling chain promiscuously is asking
> for trouble. Limiting it to static scope reduces the possibility of
> it causing trouble. That does, of course, mean that it could only be
> used in an embedded function, and that the embedded function
> couldn't be passed out to the caller.
>
The very same variables that you can currently read from nested
scopes.  I'll make this explicit if I write a PEP.

> 2. I'm not certain I like the syntax.
>
No problem, I'm open on this :-).  The first question is whether the
ability should be there.

> 3. I like the notion of an abbreviated notation for rebinding things
>    at the instance or module level, however.
>
Not instance - if you mean getting rid of ``self.`` - that wouldn't
fit in here.

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