From d5d6de89089cab76d3e359e06273f233581c60f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:53:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add brief note on compiler support

---
 pep-0227.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pep-0227.txt b/pep-0227.txt
index 94e8e1115..ccd235b32 100644
--- a/pep-0227.txt
+++ b/pep-0227.txt
@@ -329,6 +329,12 @@ Implementation
     definition time.  This is the default argument hack, but not
     actual name resolution based on statically nested scopes.
 
+    It is not clear whether the current 1-pass Python compiler can
+    determine which references are to globals and which are references
+    to enclosing scopes.  It may be possible to make minimal changes
+    that defers the optimize() call until a second pass, after scopes
+    have been determined.
+
 
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