While everyone is saying what they want in Python :)

[Jim Richardson]

On Sun, 04 Feb 2001 08:20:24 -0800, 
 Daniel Klein, in the persona of <danielk at aracnet.com>,
 brought forth the following words...:

>On Sun, 04 Feb 2001 14:19:04 +0000, Jay O'Connor <joconnor at cybermesa.com>
>
>That's cos Smalltalk returns 'self' by default when a there is no explicit
>return value. This can be done in Python if your 'set' methods return 'self'
>instead of 'None'. For example:

can someone explain to me what exactly "self" is for? I just don't get it.
(I am trying to learn this language, but this puzzles me.) Every time I think I
get it, I find proof otherwise :)


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