On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:06:05AM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > There is no requirement to have 'self' in the parameter list.
But there is a requirement to have *something* which refers to the object instance. Why can't this be implicit with a keyword defined in python to refer to it? > So the proposal would have to be that the compiler scan the function > body and decide which dotted name prefix is the one to be implicitly > added. Have fun writing the discovery algorithm. That's crazy talk. > Or the proposal would have to be that 'self' is mandatory for all > programmers in all languages. I think *that* would be pernicious. > People are now free to write the more compact 's.sum = s.a + s.b + s.c' s = self There, your problem is fixed. Besides, in general, it's better programming practie to use meaningful names, with fairly obvious and well-understood exceptions. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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