Is Module.parent part of the public Flax API? #1212
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Answer by @levskaya:
you can even do weird things like overriding what a module's parent is at instantiation so it's definitely a core, public part of the API, even if we don't advertise it much. |
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Answer by @levskaya:
parentis a key attribute, it's just usually handled automatically as a dynamically scoped variable in the background.you can even do weird things like overriding what a module's parent is at instantiation
MyModule(...., parent=weird_parent)in case you really needed to for closures or something, though I don't think anyone has ever (yet) used that.so it's definitely a core, public part of the API, even if we don't advertise it much.