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[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python

[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python [Python-Dev] towards a faster Python"Martin v. Löwis" martin@v.loewis.de
Mon, 09 Jun 2003 22:48:32 +0200
Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I still would like to be able to say "if you add a module global that
> corresponds to a built-in name used in the module, the module may
> continue to use the built-in name".  As long as we can detect *most*
> of the ways of inserting such module globals, the remaining ways could
> be declared illegal without making them impossible.

I'd phrase this differently: Those cases just get a different semantics
then they have now; the module-level name is ignored unless explicitly
qualified. In the spirit of C, hiding builtins would cause "undefined 
behaviour" or "implementation-defined behaviour", and not be "illegal".

Regards,
Martin





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