Attack a sacred Python Cow

[Terry Reedy]

Kay Schluehr wrote:
> On 25 Jul., 03:01, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
>> Inserting self into the arg list is trivial.  Mindlessly deciding
>> correctly whether or not to insert 'self.' before 'a' is impossible when
>> 'a' could ambiguously be either an attribute of self or a local variable
>> of f.  Or do you and/or Jordan plan to abolish local variables for methods?
>>
>> tjr
> 
> This isn't the problem Jordan tries to address. It's really just about
> `self` in the argument signature of f, not about its omission in the
> body.

That is not at all how I read him, so I will let him respond if he 
wishes.  The main problem moving a function from module scope to class 
scope is prefixing the proper variables.  Adding a param name, whether 
'self', 's', 'this', or whatever, is trivial and hardly worth the ink.