Why self?

[Louis M. Pecora]

In article <mailman.1026240555.9580.python-list at python.org>, Mark
McEahern <marklists at mceahern.com> wrote:

> Do you use emacs?  
No

>It would probably be trivial to write a Lisp macro that
> would transform this:
> 
>   y = x**2 * t/z + a * FFT(tseries)
> 
> into:
> 
>   x = self.x
>   t = self.t
>   z = self.z
>   a = self.a
>   tseries = self.tseries
> 
>   y = x**2 * t/z + a * FFT(tseries)
> 
>   self.y = y
> 
> // m

Yuck.  Lots of effort there.

-- 
Lou Pecora
  - My views are my own.