My bad. I thought obj.foo() and this.foo() were different cases, but they 
obviously aren’t.

On Nov 1, 2011, at 20:03 , Jeremy Ashkenas wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Another point to consider: What happens if there are several calls 
> super.foo() and the last one makes a call this.foo() (infinite recursion can 
> be prevented via a parameter)
> 
> We're getting mixed up in time, as I just answered that in the previous 
> message. To quote myself:
> 
> > ... and even for fancier cases where you restart the same super() chain 
> > recursively 
> > from the outside. Imagine if one of the deeper super.one()'s itself calls 
> > obj.one(), 
> > with a direct reference to the instance (and a different parameter, to 
> > avoid infinite 
> > recursion). You can imagine super counters as a stack instead of a value, 
> > and 
> > push a fresh one on, popping it when the new obj.one() call exits.
> 
> ... a simple stack of records, one for each re-starting of the super() chain, 
> should do. When calling super() from a function, it's easy for the runtime to 
> tell if that function was itself invoked via super(), or from the top level.

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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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