Re: Can synopsis (be made to) follow Python impo rts?

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:58:00PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:14:18AM -0800, Eric Hopper wrote:
> > Callgraphs are a little trickier, but I bet it's still possible.
> > Python's scoping rules are very simple and straightforward.  And while
> > you can do some very weird things with executing things in odd scopes,
> > the most common cases are easy to deal with.
> 
> What really breaks this is method calls; unless the object in question
> was constructed a few lines before, you have no idea where a method
> call is actually going... and method calls in Python are, obviously,
> quite common.

You're right.  :-( Though, actually, many methods for user-defined
classes have unique names.  :-) But it's still a huge pain.  I knew it
would be, but I couldn't think of what made it that way, and had to
resort to the scoping thing.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."  --- Thomas Jefferson
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-- Eric Hopper ([email protected]  http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --

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