On 4/24/2022 5:42 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
What's the use case for arbitrary expressions vs. a (possibly
qualified) name? A class factory that produces forward declarations?
Do you have a use case in mind?
It's:
x.py:
------8<--------
forward class A()
------8<--------
x_impl.py
------8<--------
import X
continue class X.A:
# class body here
------8<--------
It needs to be an expression because it's not defining a name, it
referring to an existing name. You could use "from X import A" here and
avoid a dotted expression, but it still needs to be an expression
referring to an existing "forward class". Even if you restrict it to not
having dots, it's logically an expression, not a name binding.
Eric
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