[Python-Dev] nonlocal x = value

[Georg Brandl]

Am 27.12.2010 10:43, schrieb Raymond Hettinger:

> FWIW, I'm entirely opposed to doing an assignment in a nonlocal definition.
> 
> * It is easily mis-parsed by human (as shown by Georg's examples).
> * It looks very much like an initialization of a local variable in many languages,
>   but it is not -- the variable has already been initialized in another scope.

Hah, and we'd probably get requests for a mandatory declaration of locals, ala

local a = 5

for reasons of "consistency" or "explicit is better than implicit".

Georg