History of 'self' and why not at least 'my'?

[Karl M. Syring]

"Steven Majewski" <sdm7g at Virginia.EDU> schrieb
> As a homage to Intercal, and to promote a more sensitve, less selfish
> Python programming style, I propose we change the convention to use
> "please" instead of "self", as in:
> 
> def somemethod( please, arg ):
> please.append(arg)
> please.sort()
> please.reverse()
> 
> It would sure make my day of reading code more pleasant!

Steve,
I would propose the use of the C preprocessor. Adding a
#define please self
at the top of file should be pleasing enough.

Karl M. Syring