Proposal for removing self

Courageous dontwant at spam.com
Sat Sep 4 11:20:05 EDT 2004


>Java's generics aren't nearly as liberal as C++ templates. They're basically
>just syntax sugar for casting, so I doubt this would change much. I still
>prefer the explicit "this." or "self.", 

I prefer explicit self, but have often wished that it could disappear
syntactically as the first argument to methods. I've never seen a
really compelling reason for that.

C//




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