On 7/10/06, Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > On 7/10/06, Ka-Ping Yee <python-dev at zesty.ca> wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 skip at pobox.com wrote: > > > I think Talin's got a point though. It seems hard to find one short > English > > > word that captures the essence of the desired behavior. None of the > words > > > in his list seem strongly suggestive of the meaning to me. I suspect > that > > > means one's ultimately as good (or as bad) as the rest. > > > > What's wrong with "nonlocal"? I don't think i've seen an argument > > against that one so far (from Talin or others). > > It's a made-up word. You won't find it in the dictionary and the > google define: query sends me to a wikipedia page about quantum > mechanics. It also expresses itself in the negative form "not local" > as opposed to the positive form like global "this is a global." > Finally, I think it sounds yucky. > > To express this email in the positive form: > 1. Reserved words should be real words. > 2. The meaning of the word should be clear. > 3. "Put statements in positive form." (Strunk & White) > 4. The word should sound good. > > global meets all of these requirements. "free" was the word I > remember preferring from earlier discussions, but I think it fails #2. > (Too much confusion about freeing memory, for example.) I remember previous discussions also referring to spelling this as "outer" which IMO passes #2 as well as the other, although arguably #4 is subjective ;-). -Almann -- Almann T. Goo almann.goo at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20060710/5d24e320/attachment.html
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