Kevin Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not extend the interface to the locals builtin and add a __getitem__
> that returns a proxy to access locals defined in other lexical scopes
> via __{get/set/del}attr_:
>
> def counter(num):
> num = 1
> def inc():
> locals[1].num += 1
>
Talin wrote:
> I propose to create a new type of scoping rule, which I will call
> "explicit" lexical scoping, that will co-exist with the current
> "implicit" scoping rule that exists in Python today.
I'd like to toss one more variant into the mix. If we really need to
address variables in an