Idea: Python Shorthand (was Re: Why a class when there will only be one instance?

[Peter Maas]

Ville Vainio wrote:
> You might want to create a preprocessor that adds "self" to all
> in-class definitions that have @, and convert @hei to self.hei. Voila,
> Ruby non-silliness.

This is an editor job. Good programming editors allow to expand
abbreviations, so there is no need to clutter the language
definition or write a preprocessor.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas

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