"Peter Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9/12/07, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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"?
No. Everything that's not explicit is "magic", in that it potentially needs to be explained to a newcomer the first time they encounter it. -- \ "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so, | `\ Brain, but if the plural of mouse is mice, wouldn't the plural | _o__) of spouse be spice?" -- _Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
