[Python-Dev] Classes and Metaclasses in Smalltalk (original) (raw)

Donald Beaudry Donald Beaudry donb@abinitio.com
Thu, 03 May 2001 12:47:29 -0400

"Tim Peters" <tim.one@home.com> wrote,

Given that we're using Python's search rules, the ambiguous point remaining is whether:

super.f() textually contained in a method of class K begins searching with: 1) K.bases or with: 2) self.class.bases

It can only be 1. The using 2 will only be correct if you are in a method defined on a leaf class. If not in a leaf, the search will find the method you are already in... recursion is likely to terminate in a stack overflow ;)

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