[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've heard 2 people complain that word 'global' is confusing. > >Perhaps 'modulescope' or 'module' would be better? > >Am I the first peope to have thought of this and suggested it? > >Is this a candidate for Python 3000 yet? > >Chris > > > Hmm.. instead of 'global', how about 'outside' ? It seems a bit more intuitive to me because it suggests that you mean, "the variable defined outside this scope" or outside any nestedness.
But then again it could be confused to mean "just one scope above this one" which isn't necessarily module scope (nested functions, etc.)... still, might be less confusing than 'global'. Another alternative to having to say "global var" would be to use some sort of indicator that you want the global with each usage, like, "global.var" or "outside.var" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
