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Re:Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses by pansa2 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:52PM (#22619357)
Is it possible that there isn't a `this` binding? Does Lox allow access to "unbound" methods directly from a class, or are methods accessible only via instances?
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Re:Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses by munificent on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:07PM (#22619536)
Methods are only accessible from instances, so `this` is always meaningfully bound. If you try to use `this` outside of a class body, it's a static error.
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Re:Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses by pansa2 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:23PM (#22619691)
OK, that solves the problem. The issue with unbound methods in Python is that they don’t yet have a value for `this`, but they do have a fixed value for `super`.
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