Proposal for removing self

[Erik Max Francis]

"Batista, Facundo" wrote:

> [Brent W. Hughes]
> 
> #- When doing object-oriented stuff, it bothers me to have to
> #- type "self" so
> #- many times.  I propose that Python allow the programmer to
> #- optionally type
> #- ".variable" instead of "self.variable" to mean the same
> #- thing.  Of course,
> #- the interpreter would have to be more careful about
> #- detecting floats that
> #- begin with just a period as in ".5".  What are your thoughts?
> 
> I type less than read, so I prefer the code to be better readable than
> writable.
> 
> I'm -1 on your proposal.

Furthermore, I believe there's been some talk as a prefixed dot being
reserved for possible use in a "with" control structure at some point in
the future.  So using it to abbreviate self is definitely out. 
(Besides, this proposal is not new.)

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