Attack a sacred Python Cow

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

D'Arcy J.M. Cain writes:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:45:21 +0200
> Torsten Bronger <bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
>> Of course, "self" would have to become a reserved word.  You
>> could say that this may break some code, but I don't see much
>> freedom
>
> Isn't this a showstopper all by itself?

Yes.  But I've seen no code that uses some other word.  Emacs'
syntax highlighting even treats it as reserved.  So I think that
other counter-arguments are stronger.

The in my opinion strongest one is that automatic insertion of
"self" would make Python less verbose but more complicated.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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