Python 3K or Python 2.9?

[Steve Holden]

TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
>> The other half of the confusion is cleared up by considering that
>> Python methods are ordinary functions that don't magically "know" in
>> which "class" context they are executing: they must be told via the
>> first parameter.
>>
> 
> They can be told all they want by the compiler/runtime - implicitly -
> under-the-covers, out-of-sight.
> 
I wish you would keep these deep insightful comments to yourself. Your 
knowledge of the interpreter internals appears to be based on 
examination by crystal ball.

You conveniently ignore the fact that the situation described by David 
Trudgett (and, by the way, your quoting with no attributions is also 
becoming tiresome very quickly) is a *design choice*, not a mistake. 
It's done precisely to make an explicit reference to the instance 
available to methods.

You also conveniently ignore the fact that changing tis would also 
change other aspects of the language, such as the ability to graft 
functions into instances and classes as methods.

regards
  Steve
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