On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:42:38PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: > On Apr 18, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:34:49AM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: > >>On a side note, is there a way to get at the parent namespace if you have > >>a namespace? I don't see anything in the PDD about it. (Seems you can only > >>walk *down* the hierarchy, not up.) > > > >That's true. Given aliasing there may not be just one parent, but I don't > >suppose the distant chance of that will keep you from wanting this > >feature...? > > Well, for the tcl interpreter/compiler, there's not a huge need. > Either I keep doing it the way I'm doing it now (and I'm *only* doing > it for getting at the internals at the moment); or you say bug and I > go back to doing it with find_global.
I think we should hold off this until we have a non-diagnostic use case. I think it's a good idea to add this, as long as we name it in a way that aliasing doesn't confuse the users. How about PMC *get_original_parent() ? It does occur to me that we might want a weak reference there, so that namespaces can evaporate. It also occurs to me more strongly that we don't want to have a get_name() but rather PMC *get_original_name() because aliasing may make the original and actual names differ. -- Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
