What is "self"?

[Terry Hancock]

On Friday 23 September 2005 10:41 am, Rick Wotnaz wrote:
> Oh, 'ix' would be fine. Single-letter loop counters are also semi-
> fine if that is in fact their only use. It too-frequently happens 
> that at some point the handy 'i' identifier is used outside the 
> loop (for another placeholder), and its value is tromped by an 
> intervening loop. Not terribly difficult to discover, but then 
> what? When you're maintaining code, even a two-character index is a 
> *lot* easier to find in source code and replace as needed. 

Sorry, but if you have to grep for it, your loop is TOO DARNED LARGE,
USE A FUNCTION CALL!

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