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[Python-Dev] [poll] New name for __builtins__

Neil Toronto ntoronto at cs.byu.edu
Thu Nov 29 12:06:45 CET 2007 
Christian Heimes wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
>> __uberglobal__
> 
> Since Python 3.0 supports all unicode chars I vote for __überglobal__.

Make it untypeable to most Americans so as to discourage use? If that's 
what we're going for, I suggest the somewhat more self-documenting and 
less impossible __the_dictionary_where_all_the_builtins_are_now__.

Seriously, though, I really liked __universal__. It's part of a theme: 
local < global < universal, and it communicates itself well. __root__ 
and its ilk don't bring anything concrete to mind, just abstract trees. 
I don't think of namespaces as trees when I'm coding a function - 
they're more like layers or overlays at that level.

So, a +0.01 from me (after weighting for lurkerhood) for __universal__.

Neil
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