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From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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Subject: Re: Method Chaining
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 13:47:43 -0700
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On 06/18/2016 07:05 AM, Joonas Liik wrote:
> On 18 June 2016 at 15:04, Pete Forman wrote:

>> with obj:
>>      .a = 1                # equivalent to obj.a = 1
>>      .total = .total + 1   # obj.total = obj.total + 1
>
> the leading dot does not resolve the ambiguity that arises from:
>
> with ob_a:
>      with ob_b:
>          .attr_c = 42 # which object are we modifying right now?

The innermost one.  Why would it be anything else?

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~Ethan~