Replacement for keyword 'global' good idea? (e.g. 'modulescope' or 'module' better?)

Paul Rubin http
Sat Aug 6 20:00:40 EDT 2005


"seberino at spawar.navy.mil" <seberino at spawar.navy.mil> writes:
    > I've heard 2 people complain that word 'global' is confusing.
    > Perhaps 'modulescope' or 'module' would be better?
    > Am I the first peope to have thought of this and suggested it?
    > Is this a candidate for Python 3000 yet?

It's not just the word that's confusing, Python's scoping system is
just a mess.  I hope that Python 3000 fixes it, but who knows.



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