[Python-Dev] replacing 'global'

Sun Oct 26 06:35:41 EST 2003

On Sunday 26 October 2003 11:42, Skip Montanaro wrote:
 ...
> might need to remember the same discipline all the time. It seems that
> use of
> x := 2
> and
> x = 4
> should be disallowed in the same function so that the compiler can
> flag such mistakes.

I entirely agree with you. There is no good use case that I can see for
this mixture, and prohibiting it helps the compiler help the programmer.
> * This seems like a statement which mixes declaration and execution.

That's actually the PLAIN assignment statement, which mixes assigning
a value with telling the compiler "this name is local" (other binding 
statements such as def, class etc also do that).
Alex