***rekado_ is now known as rekado
<zimoun>civodul: when inheriting, it can be annoying to repeat the package from which it inherit, where pacckage-arguments or package-inputs or else is modified. <zimoun>the question is: does it exit a kind of ’this’ or ’super’ to access to that instead of repeating the symbol? <zimoun>well, back to this example, starpu+fxt depends on starpu (inherit) and again starpu (arguments). <zimoun>So if now I have another package starpu+mine and I want to build starpu+fxt, I have to modify all the occurences of starpu which is annoying. <civodul>i guess we could have a "parent" syntax parameter that would be set in the lexical scope of the 'inherit' thing <zimoun>yeah, something like that. Python use __super__ to refer to parent. <civodul>keep in mind that despite the name it has nothing to do with inheritance in the OO sense :-) <zimoun>yeah, that’s just the buzz word for copy ;-) <civodul>also, "super" is they keyword we use to refer to Guix as a whole :-) <zimoun>well, my point is just just that “this” is the common OO for the current class. What is the common for parent?