On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Alan Meyer <amey...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Of course you'll need to be fair in evaluating the students comparisons. > Some bright students are likely to come up with good reasons for using > globals in some situations, and they might even be right. Or if they're not > completely right, they might nevertheless be partly right. They should get > high marks for that. >
Definitely. There's always a right time to do the wrong thing, just as much as there's a wrong time to do the right thing. Even the much-maligned goto has its place. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
