"self" in a class is annoying and errorprone

[Peter Hansen]

Meinrad Recheis wrote:
> 
> ^whops that was a bee's nest i went into...

Advice you should follow before going to the ruby newsgroup: 
read the FAQ first!

> ok, i m going to accept, that python is almost petrified.

Uh, yeah... that's exactly it.  Python will never change.  
It has all the features it will ever need, including booleans,
ternary operators, strange little syntactical formations which 
can map lists to other lists, and all kinds of things like this.
Petrified, yeah, that's it. ;-)

> anyway ruby is better in several dimensions, and still willing to change
> or improve!

Ah, you were trolling... the truth comes out.

When you're ready for it, Python will still be here, probably
a little changed, but very likely still with the "self" variable.

-Peter