[Python-Dev] replacing 'global'

Sat Oct 25 21:20:33 EDT 2003

> How about adding a "rebinding" operator, for example spelled ":=":
>> a := 2

I expect Guido would object to that on the grounds that
it's conferring arbitrary semantics on a symbol.
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