FEEDBACK WANTED: Type/class unification

[Bengt Richter]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:42:45 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:

>William Tanksley wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:12:00 -0700, Sam Penrose wrote:
>> >Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> 
>> >> I think 'self' would be confusing.  I'd like to propose 'cls'.
>> 
>> >How about an English word or phrase in lieu of YATATL (yet another
>> >terse acronym to learn)?
>> 
>> Yes, please.  Does anyone have any prior art on this topic?  'self' is
>> nice because it was in common use before.
>[...]
>> OTOH, perhaps we don't want a synonym for 'class'; perhaps we just want a
>> plural version of 'self'.  'selves'?  'us'?  'our'?
>
>Without necessarily understanding the question or its implications,
>reading the first posting my subconscious came up with "us", too.
>On the other hand, we use "self", not "me", so it's not conceptually
>consistent.
>
How about clarg?