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[Python-Dev] replacing 'global'

Samuele Pedroni pedronis at bluewin.ch
Sun Oct 26 08:37:01 EST 2003 
At 10:53 26.10.2003 +0100, Just van Rossum wrote:

>But: let's not get carried away with this particular spelling, the main
>question is: "is it a good idea to have a rebinding assignment
>operator?" (regardless of how that operator is spelled). Needless to
>say, I think it is.

would you mind trying to express why? everybody is spending a lot of mental 
energy
trying to figure a out a sensible way to achieve this but only Guido has 
made explicit some 3rd party reasons to want it. I would like to read more 
rationales
about why we need it so badly.

Thanks.
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