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Sun Jul 9 20:50:00 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/067174.html

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Andrew Koenig wrote:
> > Sounds reasonable to me.  If we're talking py3k I'd chuck "global" as a
> > keyword though and replace it with something like "outer".
>
> I must say that I don't like "outer" any more than I like "global."  The
> problem is that in both cases we are selecting the *inner*most definition
> that isn't in the current scope.

That's why "nonlocal" is a better choice in my opinion.

-- ?!ng

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