Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Python classes are not namespaces. Nor are they global. They are dictionaries.
Or, the view is a dictionary-like. The dict is CPython's implementation. I can imagine that Parrot's class namespaces work as well.
Are namespaces subject to garbage collection? Classes may be created on the fly in Python, and disapear just as quickly.
Take a look at the last test in parrot/languages/python/t/basic/oo_class.t to get an idea of what I am talking about.
Well, that just depends on how you implement attribute access, as far as I can see.
In the example, two objects with the same class have different implementations of a given method.
Furthermore, every assignment to any property of any instance has the potential of invalidating whatever caches you may have.
- Sam Ruby
