[Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?)

[Barry Warsaw]

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PCTotD (pre-coffee thought of the day):

On Jul 5, 2006, at 6:17 AM, Marek "Baczek" Baczyński wrote:

> 2006/7/5, Just van Rossum <just at letterror.com>:
>> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/5/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>>>> Did you also consider and reject:
>>>>
>>>> * Alternate binding operators (e.g. ":=", ".=", etc.)
>>>
>>> Brr.

Clearly we need the "as if in" operator:

x = 0
def foo():
    x = 1
    def bar():
       x = 2
       def baz():
           x as if in foo = 3
       x as if in global += 1

(Personally, I've never really needed this much, but if you have to  
have it, be explicit! :)

- -Barry

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