Agreed. The currently supported syntax (a global/nonlocal line and an
assignment) is not too painful to figure out the ambiguity of the
proposed syntax.
2013/6/29 Guido van Rossum :
> I agree that there are problems with the idea of combining assignment
> and global statements, because the ambigui
I agree that there are problems with the idea of combining assignment
and global statements, because the ambiguity of "global x, y = p, q"
is just too much to handle. The only case would be if there was only a
single variable, but that fails the test of easy generalization. So
let's close it.
--Gu
Issue 4199 begins with a self-explanatory comment:
PEP 3104 says that the nonlocal and global statements should
allow a shorthand. ("global x; x = 3" == "global x = 3") This
patch implements that.
Benjamin posted his patch on 2008-10-24. It got postponed to 3.2
because it was t
