Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Oct 27 20:48:21 EST 2003

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Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com>:

> My slight preference for leaving += and friends alone is that
> a function using them to rebind nonlocals would be hard to
> read

Using my "outer" suggestion, augmented assignments to
nonlocals would be written

  outer x += 1

which would make the intention pretty clear, I think.

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