A better self

[Greg Ewing]

Erik Max Francis wrote:

> so that the notation `.attribute' is just a shortcut for
> `self.attribute'.


Or it could be a shorthand for <whatever_the_first_arg_is>.attribute,
so you could still call the first arg something else.

But I tend to agree that a leading "." is a bit
*too* unobtrusive!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg