Hallöchen! Russ Paielli writes:
Just for fun, I made a copy of one of my Python files with hundreds of occurrences of "self", and I replaced them all with "S". This streamlines things significantly, and I think it looks good, but I suppose most Python aficionados would be aghast. I'm thinking about doing it permanently for all my files. I normally avoid single-character names, but I think this case could be a reasonable exception. What would you think if you saw this in "production" code?
The "self" convention goes so far that my editor highlights it -- this may be true for other editors/HTML highlighters, too. I'd even frown upon any programmer who breaks this convention for code that has the slightest chance to become public. Besides, I don't consider "self"s cluttering up the code. YMMV, but I don't measure code legibility by the terseness of certain identifies at all. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: torsten.bronger@jabber.rwth-aachen.de