Before responding (later) I have to add something additional first:
About the OO comments
(Note again for this 2nd main topic of this thread:
the term "globals" - it is meant only as the vars of a module outside
functions
and not sharing vars throughout the app
the term "global" - Python keyword for write access inside functions)
Yes OO is a solution but Python invites also developers
using functional or procedural style.
I have used OO-terms to make it more visible to OO-developers
or simply cause it is common knowlegde:
I dont have and wanted not compare OO terminology with Python OO structure.
When I have compared OO class members with Python globals
or when I have used e.g. the term singleton than I have described
the behaviour of a module from OO point of view and to show that
OO languages need no"global"-keyword to fulfil its tasks,
and to show that procedural style used in that manner is like
nearby an OO-solution.
So you dont need OO under all circumstances.
There is a procedural/functional way too.
Even other comparisons like type-safety is nothing else
but to show that such languages need no "global" keyword.
So, mainly with my comparison I tried to argue that there
is no no need for a "global" keyword.
Said that, I will not respond to comments about using OO
or about comparisons made with other languages.
(And by the way, OO in Python has something similiar (a.k.a "self"-keyword))
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