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On 2015-09-03 17:43, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 09/03/2015 10:15 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> The only person whom I see talking about this in this thread is you
>> disclaiming that you're not talking about it. (And I guess Skybuck is
>> talking about it, but I don't see those.)
>
> I have a vague memory of Skybuck talking about globals over a year ago.
> That must be what tdev's responding to.
>
It wasn't as long ago as that; it's been only 9 months! :-)

> Sadly Skybuck probably ditched Python a long time ago as he was spending
> his time trying to make it into Java rather than taking advantage of
> idiomatic Python programming.  Those that try to program Java style in
> Python are going to be frustrated.
>