Re: the annoying, verbose self

MonkeeSage wrote:
The issue of lexical scope still looms large on the horizon. How does
one distinguish between attributes (as scoped by the "with" clause),
local/global variables, and function/method calls? There doesn't seem
to be an easy way. You'd need multiple passes over the data to
determine various scopes -- and for what, to save typing a few
characters? And even if implemented, it would mean hiding the
complexity of the resolution, which is not a good thing.

Regards,
Jordan

Does this address your concerns?

The idea being that "with self" use
creates a new namespace:
newGlobal= oldGlobal + oldLocal
newLocal= names from self

Similarly, "with math" creates a newer
namespace:
newerGlobal= newGlobal + newLocal
newerLocal= names from math

My guess is that there would be little
use for nesting the
"with".


Colin W.

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