[Python-3000] auto-super()

Tue Apr 18 10:52:44 CEST 2006

On 4/18/06, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> Whatever resolves __private variables could be used to the same effect
> to bind super, couldn't it? Still a language-level change, but not one
> without precedence.

Hardly the same mechanism; __private is done by low-level name
mangling in the early stages of the compiler. super() would need a
class object to be reliable; the class *name* (which is all that's
available at compile time) might resolve to something else at runtime.
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