Avoiding local variable declarations?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:18:51 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:32:35 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> 
>> Not such illogical crap like
>> ``a = a + 1`` which must be obviously false unless 1 is defined as the
>> neutral element for the definition of ``+`` here.
> 
> I don't quite know what you mean by "neutral element". I think you mean
> the identity element […]

I knew I should have looked it up instead of "translating" it from my 
mother tongue -- yes I ment "identity element".  Sorry for the confusion.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintch