Ben Finney wrote: > So the tradeoff you propose is: > > - Honour "explicit is better than implicit", but users are confused > over "why do I need to declare the instance in the method > signature?" > > against > > - Break "explicit is better than implicit", take away some of the > flexibility in Python, and users are confused over "where the heck > did this 'self' thing come from?" or "how the heck do I refer to > the instance object?"
Essentially, but 1. it removes zero flexibility (everything works as before) 2. it's no more confusing than "where did this len/count/dir/type/str/any other builtin thing come from?" 3. learning "how do i access this instance object" is certainly no harder or less intuitive than learning "how do i initialize this instance object?" > I don't see a net gain by going with the latter. Ok. Would you care to explain in more detail? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
