Why 'self' ?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Russell E. Owen" wrote:

> I certainly agree it's a problem. I find forgetting to include the
> "self" argument to be one of the more significant sources of error in
> my
> own coding. Aside from that, I find it confusing that the caller and
> callee argument list are different.

There is a fairly good reason why this is done.  Methods can be bound or
unbound, and having the self parameter explicit in the case of unbound
methods and implicit in the case of bound methods makes a good deal of
sense.

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