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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 03:13:17 +1000
Subject: Re: Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS)
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Same difference. It can't simply look for the name in globals(), it
has to figure out based on the caller's globals.

ChrisA