Deprecate self

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Wed Apr 18 11:19:25 EDT 2001


Dave LeBlanc wrote:

> Since self is used for every method of every class, isn't it a bit
> redundant? I don't know of another OO language that makes you manually
> carry around the "this"/"self" pointer/reference...

It is better to have it be explicit, and changing it would break lots of
code, anyway.

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