From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2002-11-12T05:47:04+09:00
Subject: Re: More fun with modules

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> Method lookup doesn't go thru enclosing modules, just included modules
> (and superclasses, of course).
> 
> However, constant lookup *does* look thru enclosing modules, in
> addition to included modules and superclasses:

Ah, that explains it!  I was using this facility to define a few
module-level global variables that I didn't want to be /real/
globals, and it seems to me that the PoLS would indicate that what
works for constants works for other things, too.  Why does it work
this way?

-=Eric
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