On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Bruce Leban <bruce@leapyear.org> wrote:
Jim Jewett wrote:
If I could write:
class foo: def self.bar(): self.rebar(self.babar)
then the call to object.bar() would match the declaration.
Back to Russ's proposal: it would be better accomodated IMHO by allowing $ as a character in a variable name, just like _ is. Then, conventionally, people could use $ as self:
def $.bar(): $.rebar($.babar)
and for whatever it's worth, I find $.bar easier to read then $bar as the explicit dot reminds me it's doing an attribute get rather than looking like a special variable name.
def $.bar(): $.rebar($.babar) That's two separate proposals, but I think I like both of them. Of course, Python already allows "S", which is very similar to "$", as the first argument, so we're almost there on that aspect of it. Come to think of it, I may start using "S" and see how it works out. So how about def S.bar(): S.rebar(S.babar) --Russ