On 2008-08-01, at 05:13EDT, Peter Hall wrote:
>>>
>>> In AS3, the reference to bar in the zot function would be bound to
>>> this.bar
>>
>> I don't follow. There is no `this.bar` in the class where zot is
>> defined.
>>
>
> Sorry, I said that backwards. When class foo is compiled, there is no
> member called bar, so the reference is bound to the global variable.
> Defining a member variable called bar in the subclass does not affect
> that.
I think what everyone is saying is that my model of how references in
methods are resolved is wrong. There is no implicit `with (this)` in
method bodies, the references are resolved lexically, not dynamically.
In either case, though, it seems there is no in-language way to refer
to a global that is shadowed by an instance variable. The offered
solutions assume that the implementation creates a global object that
can be used to refer to globals.
> I don't know how convention will develop in other environments but, in
> AS3, global variables are almost always declared in packages, and
> strict mode is on by default. The result is that you would always get
> a compiler error in these cases instead of an ambiguous reference.
What is the error? I don't get an error with this code:
var free = 'outer';
class Top {
function test () { return free; }
}
class Sub extends Top {
var free = 'inner';
override function test () { return free; }
}
Perhaps this is just poor practice, but it is confusing that the two
uses of `free` result in two different bindings.
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