Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Mh, strange, I personally like to use "this.a" in C++, to make clear > I use an instance variable.
That would be nice, unfortunately your C++ compiler will refuse that, and force you to use this->a instead;-). Many programming shops use naming conventions instead, such as my_a or a_ (trailing underscore for member-variables) -- I've even seen the convention this_a which IMHO is silly (at that point you might as well use this->a and avoid the 'convention'!-). Anyway, I essentially agree with you (except for the C++ bit: since this is a pointer, it needs ->). However, full disclosure, Smalltalk/XP superstar Kent Beck disagrees -- in his good book "Test Driven Design by Example", in the chapter where he gives the Python example, he DOES whine against the need to explicitly say self (the one bad bit in the book:-). For the curious: the explicit-self idea is essentially taken from Modula-3, a sadly now forgotten language which still had an impact on the history of programming. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
