Why self?

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Louis M. Pecora wrote:

> Yeah, I may be one of those complainers.  I have tried to learn the
> language well and really like it, but for some reason this self. thing
> really bugs me.  (I _am_ seeing a therapist :-)  ).  I write a lot of
> scientifc code and I just think
> 
> 
>    self.y= self.x**2 * self.t/self.z + self.a * FFT(self.tseries)
> 
> is a LOT uglier than
> 
>    y= x**2 * t/z + a * FFT(tseries)

s = self
s.y = s.x**2 * s.t/s.z + s.a * FFT(s.tseries)