[Python-Dev] replacing 'global'

[Guido van Rossum]

> > How about adding a "rebinding" operator, for example spelled ":=":
> > 
> >    a := 2
> 
> I expect Guido would object to that on the grounds that
> it's conferring arbitrary semantics on a symbol.

Hardly arbitary (I have fond memories of several languages that used :=).

But what is one to make of a function that uses both

  a := 2

and

  a = 2

???

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)