[Python-Dev] replacing 'global'

Sat Oct 25 23:29:53 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.

Hardly arbitary (I have fond memories of several languages that used :=).
But what is one to make of a function that uses both
 a := 2
and
 a = 2
???
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)