understanding self

[Steve Lamb]

On 2004-07-08, Jeff Shannon <jeff at ccvcorp.com> wrote:
> So far, I've heard plenty of alternatives to having explicit 'self', but
> very little indication of why it would be an improvement other than that it
> would allow less typing -- and Python has always placed ease-of-reading over
> ease-of-typing.  ("Readability counts.")

    Good thing, too, lest we devolve into Ruby's wannabe Perl line-noise to
denote what's what.  Isn't @ in ruby a class variable?

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