Hi Jonathan,
Does this global/nonlocal prefix idea of yours allow us to do anything
new that we can't do now?
At first glance, it looks like all it will do is increase the complexity
of the language, making it harder for the interpreter and third party
tools to identify globals, without any increased functionality.
Is the only benefit here that you save one line of code?
global a
a = 3
versus
global a = 3
Also, you should be aware that although CPython doesn't enforce this
rule, the language documentation does state that global "must not" be
used for loop variables, classes, functions, etc:
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#grammar-token-python-grammar-global_stmt
The bottom line is this:
Aside from the saving of one line of code, how would this improve the
language?
--
Steve
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