Style question: Nicknames for deeply nested objects

[Stephen Hansen]

On 1/30/11 10:35 AM, rantingrick wrote:
> Well congratulations Stephen, you win the obfuscation prize of the
> year!

Yes,

On 1/30/11 10:09 AM, rantingrick wrote:
> Here is how a pythonic local block would look
>
> with this as localvar:
>     localvar.do_something()

verses

with my(this) as localvar:
    localvar.do_something()

Is dreadfully more, er, obfuscated.

I mean someone would have to know what the 'my' function does to
understand what's going on!

OH MY GOD. How can someone be expected to understand what a function does!

Be serious! You can't expect that of them.

-- 

   Stephen Hansen
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