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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:18:04 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:05:28 +0000 Donald Hunter wrote:
> Sub-message selectors could only be resolved using values from the
> current nest level. Enable value lookup in outer scopes by using
> collections.ChainMap to implement an ordered lookup from nested to
> outer scopes.

Meaning if the key is not found in current scope we'll silently and
recursively try outer scopes? Did we already document that?
I remember we discussed it, can you share a link to that discussion?