On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:16:31 -0800 (PST), Westley MartÃnez > <aniko...@gmail.com> declaimed the following: > >>I understand that in an object method the first argument in the object >>itself, called self. However, it doesn't have to be called self, and can be >>called anything. So my question is why is it called self and not this like >>from C++ and Java. It's kind of a silly question, but one that I'm curious >>about nevertheless. >> > > It didn't want to be egotistical (as I recall, M$ VB uses "me")
ALL language designers are egotistical. Goes with the territory. (Larry Wall said that, I believe, regarding Perl.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
