J. Peng wrote:
> Sounds strange.
> In perl we can modify the variable's value like this way:
>
> $ perl -le '
>> $x=123;
>> sub test {
>> $x=456;
>> }
>> test;
>> print $x '
> 456
Not all that strange. The Python equivalent is
x=123
sub test()
global x
x=456
test()
print x
Python assignment works by binding an object with a name in a
namespace. I suspect that perl does something similar, and the
differences are in the rules about which namespace to use.
Mel.
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