when and how do you use Self?

Dan Sommers me at privacy.net
Thu Nov 3 11:15:56 EST 2005


On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 10:48:28 -0500,
Chris Cioffi <evenprimes at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a point of style:  the 'other' identifier should only be used in
> Zen Metaclass programming as an implicit reference to the calling
> object or as a list of references to all other instances of the class.
> Context will make it both clear and obvious which use case is desired.

Can I use the 'other' identifier in, e.g., an __add__ method?

Please?  ;-)

Regards,
Dan

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