Attack a sacred Python Cow

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Terry Reedy writes:

> Torsten Bronger wrote:
>
>> Terry Reedy writes:
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Or the proposal would have to be that 'self' is mandatory for
>>> all programmers in all languages.  I think *that* would be
>>> pernicious. People are now free to write the more compact 's.sum
>>> = s.a + s.b + s.c' if they want instead of the 'self' version.
>>> And again, not everyone writes in English.
>>
>> Of course, "self" would have to become a reserved word.  You
>> could say that this may break some code,
>
> Will break.

No more than Python 3.0 breaks.

>> but I don't see much freedom removed from the language.  After
>> all, being a German, I still can't write "Für i in range(10)".
>> ;-)
>
> But you can write 'for ubermenchen in range(10):' and in 3.0, with
> diacritics added.  Would you really feel no loss of freedom if
> Guido make i0, i1, ... into keywords, which means they could not
> be used elsewhere, and mandated them as for loop index variables?

I would, but I consider "self" becoming a keyword not even in the
same league as i0, i1 etc.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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