anomaly

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 7:23:44 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> And I still don't see how this has anything to do with your confusion
> about shadowing the name 'int'.

Speaking as a compiler-writer -- everything :-)

In C 'int' is tagged off as different from 'myvar' earlier than say
'myvar' is different from 'printf'. The "define" in "#define" even earlier

Python sure has different rules of such 'tagging-off'
However all programming languages are the same in that you cant 'do semantics'
until you have finished 'doing syntax'
And name resolution is in a fuzzy area between the two --
Ask a theoretician about 'type-checking' and you will  hear: "This is just
context-sensitive syntax"
Ask a compiler-writer and you get: "Part of the semantic analysis module"