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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 11:08:50 -0600
Subject: Re: Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS)
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On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Except that it's even more complicated than that, because hasattr
> wasn't defined in your module, so it has a different set of globals.
> In fact, this would mean that hasattr would become quite useless.

hasattr is a builtin, so it has no globals at all.  It would have to
use the calling scope for UFCS resolution as in my example
implementation.