Re: [Python-ideas] PEP: Shorthand Symbol for "self"

Bruce Leban wrote:

If I could write:

class foo: def self.bar(): self.rebar(self.babar)

then the call to object.bar() would match the declaration.

I would rather reserve that syntax for a possible future enhancement to allow the target of a def statement to be a more general lvalue. It's been suggested e.g. that it would be handy to be able to create tables of functions using things like def funcs[5](x, y): ... If that were allowed, then def a.b() would logically have the meaning of defining a function b as an attribute of a. -- Greg