why python annoys me

[François Granger]

D-Man <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:40:53PM +0200, Martin von Loewis wrote:
> | Luke <floods at netplus.net> writes:
> | > 
> | > Why do you always have to access class data members as self.* What a
> | > pain in the ass, and anti-OO.
> | 
> | I disagree. In Smalltalk, which is one of the oldest OO languages, the
> | object being dealt with is always referred-to as "self". Even in a
> | natural language, the actor always refers to the subject of an action,
> | even if the subject is the actor ("I understand this", not "Understand
> | this").
> 
> Only in English.  In other languages (Spanish comes to mind, I don't
> really know any others but AFAIK all Romance languages are identical
> in this regard) the verb changes to indicate the subject.

Sorry, this is wrong as Alex explains it.
All Romance languages are not identical in this regard. And French and
Spanish differs on this subject matter. My wife is spanish, and I am
french, so we practice both languages.

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