Scope in 2.2.1

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed May 15 20:30:16 EDT 2002


David LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> Although Python has a single pass sequential parser, it has some behaviors
> that act as though there are one or more pre-passes to discover bindings

The parser builds a parse tree, which the code
generator is free to traverse however it wants.
It's hard to count "passes" in such a system.

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