[Grace-core] Name resolution in Grace

[Andrew P Black]

On 9 Jul 2013, at 14:21 , James Noble wrote:

>> I wonder if it's time to revisit those decisions?
> 
> oh I hope not again!

Well, I knew that you wouldn't like this.  But I'm still waiting to see what you would like!  

Michael told us what he would like:

> How about:
> 1) Look at names in the current scope (i.e., names that would be
> available if this scope existed without any surrounds). If a matching
> name exists, resolve to it and terminate.
> 2) Go out one scope, and forget about the scope we were in before.
> 3) Go to 1.

This explains lexical scope, but not inheritance.  So it's only half the story.

	Andrew

P.S.  Now back home in Portland!