Deprecate self

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> Luke <floods at netplus.net> (L) writes:

L> Java's system works just fine. It is assumed when you are writing a
L> class, that a variable is part of that class. It makes more sense. After
L> all why wouldn't you assume first that a variable that is part of a
L> class belongs to that class. If you are dumb and want to put an
L> identical variable in a local scope in a function, for example, then you
L> use this.foo to distinguish. Java is more logical IMHO

But Java has variable declarations, while Python doesn't. So in Java the
compiler can find out where a variable belongs. In Python you can create
instance variables at runtime, so the compiler can't know it is an instance
variable.

E.g.

class A:
  def method(self, p):
     x = p
     return x


a = A()
a.method(1)
a.x=5
a.method(2)
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