Russ P. wrote:
If, as I wrote, you permit the omission of "self" in method signatures
defined within class definitions, then you could still insist on
instance attribute qualification using "self" - exactly as one would
when writing Java according to certain style guidelines.
I'm not sure exactly what people mean here by allowing "self" to be
"omitted" in method signatures. If it is omitted, then it seems to me
that a place holder would be needed to the interpreter that the first
argument is not just another name for "self."
In an earlier post on this thread (don't feel like looking it up at
the moment), someone suggested that member data could be accessed
using simply ".member". I think he might be on to something. The dot
is a minimal indicator that the data is a class member rather than
just local. However, a placeholder is still needed in the signature.
So why not allow something like this?:
class MyClass:
def func( , xxx, yyy):
.xxx = xxx
local = .yyy
The "self" argument is replaced with nothing, but a comma is used as a
placeholder.
(+1) but why retain the leading comma in
the argument list?
Colin W.
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