'strict' validation doesn't visit nodes defined in groupings?

[wlupton]

We've got a lint-like plugin that adds 'strict' phase validators, but were perplexed that it doesn't seem to visit nodes that are defined in groupings.

After a while we realised that 'strict' validation visits sub-statements rather than child nodes, so it descends into the groupings rather than into the nodes that have been expanded from the groupings.

The 'fix' is to use the 'reference_2' phase rather than 'strict' but:

• Is this intentional behaviour?
• Could there perhaps be a more obviously-named phase that will visit child nodes?

[mbj4668]

Yes this is intentional. The dict _v_i_children defines which phases are run over the expanded nodes.

A plugin can add its own phases with add_validation_phase(), and use set_phase_i_children() to make it run over the expanded nodes.

[wlupton]

ok; thanks!