On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:16:25 -0800, "Patrick Mullen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Most of the time self doesn't bother me in the slightest. The one
>time it does bother me however, is when I am turning a function into a
>method. In this case, often I have many local variables which I
>actually want to be instance variables, so I have to add self to all
>of them. Of course, this is going to cause me some grief no matter
>which language I am using. If it was enough trouble, it wouldn't be
>hard to make a filter that converts my code automatically.
Just bringing up something I sometimes miss from good-old Turbo-Pascal
here, which has the WITH statement to reduce the typing overhead with
(long) record/struct prefixes, used like:
with <prefix> do begin
a = ...
b = ...
end;
where all variables would be automatically prefixed with the <prefix>
(if present in the already available record definition!)
In your case where you have something like:
def somefunction(...):
a = ...
b = ...
...
c = a + b
could (simply :-) become something like:
def somefunction(self, ...):
using self:
a = ...
b = ...
...
c = a + b
so only one line extra and an indentation shift.
Of course the interpreter would have to be (much) smarter here, since
the <prefix> (in this case just a simple 'self', but it could be more
complex, e.g. some module.levels.deep) is not necessarily defined in
advance.
Since 'with' is already in use, another keyword (e.g. 'using') would
be needed
I guess speed would also be a major issue, but readibility would gain
from it (IHMO :-)
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