On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Waldemar Kornewald <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Luke, > in one of the mailing list threads you guys were wondering why Daniel > switched from @{{...}} to %(...)s and pyjslib_name() for built-ins. > The reason for using Daniel's method is that it's more correct. The > @{{...}} construct creates a lookup, so code like this wouldn't work, > anymore: > > def f(): > dict = 'hey' > x = {} > > If in the last line the "{}" expr becomes @{{dict}}() then the whole > code will fail because @{{dict}} would be the string 'hey'. The > @{{...}} construct must never be used in the compiler to resolve > built-ins. We should check the compiler at some point and fix this > stuff by using Daniel's solution everywhere (except for local variable > lookups of course).
an explanation, yaay! ok i like it. fortunately the replacement can be automated. l.
