On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:51:07 +0100, BJÃrn Lindqvist wrote: > This is promising, I'm content with whatever slowdowns necessary as long > as I can prove those who say "you can't do it" wrong. :)
Since I think I'm the only person in this discussion that said anything about what you can't do, be clear on what I said. You can't have both of undeclared attributes on self and no use of "self", in particular to add new attributes. This is, if you take the time to understand what I mean, trivially true; *somewhere* you need to declare whether a var is local to the function or an instance member. For me, I prefer the explicit "self" and getting rid of "self" now leaves you with the need to declare member variables *somehow*, which I don't consider progress. But no matter what other magic Alex works, you're only going to get one or the other; it's impossible for the compiler to divine what you mean otherwise. My point here isn't that you "can't" hack together code to do something like what you want, and it is certainly a valid exercise in plumbing the depths of Python and learning. My point is that you'll have to pay a price in other ways. You can't make self go away "for free". And that "can't" I do mean. (You weren't necessarily claiming you could. But I thought it still worth saying; even if you weren't trying to remove "self" "for free", others certainly would mean it.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
