Re: Symbol tables and scopes

Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
6 Feb 2006 00:06:16 -0500

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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Feb 2006 00:06:16 -0500
Organization: Integrable Solutions
References: 06-01-101 06-02-015 06-02-021
Keywords: symbols
Posted-Date: 06 Feb 2006 00:06:16 EST

Chris F Clark <cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:


[...]


| One thing worth noting is that in languages with explicit open scope
| (import) statements, the scopes do not necessarily exhibit stack like
| behavior. I can easily imagine (and would potentially want to use) a
| language which has "search paths" that specify how a name gets
| resolved. In that case, finding the string/hash-value is only a small
| part of the symbol look-up process. Once you know the hash value, you
| need to find out which instance of that symbol is relevant.


is the "using directive" found in C++ such an example?


-- Gaby



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