Attack a sacred Python Cow
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Jul 26 17:25:02 EDT 2008
Torsten Bronger wrote:
> 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.
There is a lot of code you have not seen. Really. In informal code I
use 's' and 'o' for 'self' and 'other'. I don't usually post such
because it is not considered polite. So you have seen a biased sample
of the universe.
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