Proposal for removing self

Aaron Rustad arustad at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 23:10:25 EDT 2004


Brett C. wrote:
> No thanks.  This is a common suggestion and Guido has said it ain't
> going to happen.  I personally like 'self' a lot because ambiguity
from
> reading code goes away.  It is easy to not see a '.' but not so for
> 'self.' .  It also makes teaching OOP to people much easier since you
> don't need to explain why some variables and method calls are to the
> instance but  other are not.  "Explicit is better than implicit".




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