Why the 'self' argument?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <vlhba85atlte07 at news.supernews.com>, John Roth wrote:
> 
> "Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
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>> In article <vlh7otscuo8gb1 at news.supernews.com>, John Roth wrote:
>>
>> > Technically, it would be possible to make "self" a reserved
>> > word, and not have to put it in the method declaration.
>> > However, there are a lot of people who use something other than
>> > the word "self," so that would break existing code.
>>
>> It would also make the language more complex and irregular.
> 
> How?

 1) It would add a reserved word.

 2) It would mean that there's some sort of difference between
    a function and a method.

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