[Python-Dev] Classes and Metaclasses in Smalltalk

[Donald Beaudry]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one@home.com> wrote,
> Given that we're using Python's search rules, the ambiguous point remaining
> is whether:
> 
>     super.f()
> 
> textually contained in a method of class K begins searching with:
> 
>     1) K.__bases__
> 
> or with:
> 
>     2) self.__class__.__bases__

It can only be 1.  The using 2 will only be correct if you are in a
method defined on a leaf class.  If not in a leaf, the search will
find the method you are already in... recursion is likely to terminate
in a stack overflow ;)

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