On 9/12/07, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TheFlyingDutchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am talking about how an author describes in English the "this" > > pointer/reference in their book on programming C++ or Java. > > > > I don't think you will find them saying that under the covers "this" > > was passed to the method (if in fact it is). They just say that it > > refers to the current object inside that object's method. > > In other words, it's magic, and the behaviour has to be explained so > the reader knows where the undeclared 'this' comes from. > > How is that preferable to the magic of "instance is passed as the > first argument to a method"?
So everything that isn't passed explicitly is "magic"? I suppose __builtin__ counts as magic, too? Define 'self' as a keyword, and its usage becomes no more magical than 'def' or 'break'. -- # p.d. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
