On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <mailman.2580.1384399784.18130.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have yet to see any language that gives true globals. At very best, >> they're just process-wide! Honestly. How am I supposed to write code >> that accesses variables running on my New York server? > > Any one of a slew of remote procedure call protocols. These days, the > cool kids are using REST, but people have been doing RPC-ish things ever > since the first guy to connect two computers with a piece of wire. > > Wait, aren't you the guy who's into MUDs?
Yeah, I am. But there's this annoying difficulty with accessing variables. I have to send messages around the world and get responses back, I can't just type "global foo" and have foo be the same thing here and everywhere else. I mean, it's called "global" for a reason, why can't it be the same "foo" for every single process in the world? Or if it's okay for "globals" to not be globally shared, then why is it a problem for them to be per-module? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
