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Richard Smith
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When declaring a name such as `fn Ns.Class.F() { ... }`, enter the
scopes of `Ns` and `Ns.Class` as we form the name, and remain in those
non-lexical scopes until the end of the declaration.
When performing an unqualified lookup, look in any enclosing non-lexical
scopes in addition to looking into the lexical name table.
We now track a scope index with each lookup result in the lexical name
lookup table. This is used to determine whether a lexical or non-lexcial
result is the innermost result and whether a declared name is in the
same scope as some previous introduction of that name or in a nested
scope. For now, this could just be the index into the scope_stack, but
the intent is to also use this to detect names being declared after they
are first looked up, which requires the indexes to outlive their scopes,
so we use a persistent numbering of all scopes instead. The persistent
numbering also permits more invariant checking.
Toolchain
A design is currently maintained in Google Drive. It'll be migrated to markdown once we are confident in its stability.