Attack a sacred Python Cow

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Kay Schluehr writes:

> On 26 Jul., 09:45, Torsten Bronger <bron... at physik.rwth-aachen.de>
> 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.
>
> ??
>
> This is an extra requirement. Why do you want to make 'self' a
> keyword?

How could one determine which other identifier must be inserted into
the method's signature?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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