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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 13:09:21 -0600
Subject: Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?
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On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> What else would you call a function that does lookups on the current
> object's superclasses?

Well, as James Knight points out in the "Super Considered Harmful"
article, the equivalent in Dylan is called "next-method", which isn't
a valid identifier in Python but seems like a reasonable starting
point.