Hallöchen!
Terry Reedy writes:
> Torsten Bronger wrote:
>
>> D'Arcy J.M. Cain writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:45:21 +0200
>>> Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Of course, "self" would have to become a reserved word. You
>>>> could say that this may break some code, but I don't see much
>>>> freedom
>>>
>>> Isn't this a showstopper all by itself?
>>
>> Yes. But I've seen no code that uses some other word.
>
> There is a lot of code you have not seen. Really. In informal
> code I use 's' and 'o' for 'self' and 'other'. I don't usually
> post such because it is not considered polite. So you have seen a
> biased sample of the universe.
I didn't say that no code breaks, nor that I've analysed more than
0.1% of the global Python code. But still, this doesn't convice me.
I still think that only a very small fraction of Python code would
break. Since no one can make a global analysis, it is more sensible
to compare it with the amount of code broken by Python 3.0 in my
opinion.
Tschö,
Torsten.
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