On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 05:05 am, t...@freenet.de wrote: > Would you remove this keyword if it would be technically possible
Absolutely not. I do not believe that it is technically possible, but even if it were, I would still argue that the Zen of Python applies: Explicit is better than implicit. Local variables should be the default, and you should explicitly declare any time you want to write to a global. Not the other way around, like Lua does. I've always thought that was silly: you should make the *desirable* thing easy to do, and the *dangerous* think (using globals) possible but not easy to do by accident. > or is good for you from high level point of view to have a keyword > "global"? Yes. > My answer is clear: remove it. > [The same e.g. with switch statement: add it] What would a switch statement do? How will it be different from if...elif? Out of the dozen or so different switch statements offered by other languages, which would you choose? -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
