Idea about method parameters
Greg Weeks
weeks at vitus.scs.agilent.com
Tue Sep 25 22:35:55 EDT 2001
Markus Schaber (markus at schabi.de) wrote:
: Now I'd love to have the possibility to shorten this by typing:
: class A:
: def m(self, self.value):
: pass # or the other work to be done
I don't mean this personally, but this sort of suggestion fills me with
dread. If every suggestion that might shrink the code a bit were adopted,
we would have a language as repulsive as Perl. It isn't that the
suggestions are necessarily bad individually. The problem is the mindset
-- evidentally widespread -- that one should add things to the language
simply because some programmer somewhere will like it. This is the road to
hell.
Regards,
Greg
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