[Python-3000] super(): issues [Was: Removing 'self' from method definitions]

Wed Apr 19 12:20:41 CEST 2006

On 4/19/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, the reference to Dylan's next method (along with a few other comments in
> this thread) makes me believe a magic autosuper() equivalent would really need
> to be based on a thread-local context, rather than any kind of static code
> analysis.

No, no, no! The current thread doesn't enter into it. It *must* be
done through static code analysis. The inputs are the class and the
instance. There's nothing that the thread can add.
> An interesting point is that being able to call the "next method" for generic
> functions has exactly the same problem.

But thread-dependency doesn't enter into it.
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