Do I always have to write "self." ?

Samuel A. Falvo II kc5tja at garnet.armored.net
Sun Apr 30 09:03:12 EDT 2000


In article <B531EC9B.57C1%abrahams at mediaone.net>, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>Alternatively, if you're writing a large program with many abstractions and
>think lots of other people will have to read it steer clear of Hungarian
>Notation in either form ;)

I disagree.

>coding in Python. Who cares if it's a dict or a UserDict, or some other
>object which models the appropriate mapping semantics?

If it's a dict, or if it's a UserDict, or if it's anything else that exports
the dict interface, then it's perfectly valid to name a parameter
dictWhatever.  I fail to see what's wrong with this concept.

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