On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:47:01PM -0500, Allison Randal wrote: > I'm in favor of the standardized variable name. It is a restriction, but > not an onerous one. I've never used anything but $self, and I'm sure it > would be easy to adapt to whatever else was chosen. Are there any > statistics availble on current usage of $self vs. $this vs. whatever? It > might be easiest to go with what the majority find most comfortable.
The top 20 'my $var' declarations in .pm files in the bleedperl distribution: (I was in need of some displacement activity....) 1076 $self 181 $x 126 $file 110 $class 109 $name 98 $i 92 $line 82 $r 80 $s 75 $dir 74 $a 71 $fh 70 $key 69 $path 68 $p 68 $y 66 $c 66 $n 63 $text 60 $type and in 48th place: 22 $this Dave. -- "Do not dabble in paradox, Edward, it puts you in danger of fortuitous wit." Lady Croom - Arcadia
