[Python-Dev] Draft proposal: Implicit self in Python 3.0

[Brett Cannon]

On 1/8/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Martin]
> >> But now: who is going to write it? "Guido should write it" clearly won't
> >> work. And no, I'm explicitly not volunteering either.
>
> [Thomas]
> > Well, the PEP will be mostly boilerplate anyway (unless there's a sudden
> > influx of old ideas) so I'm sure I can whip something up before next
> > weekend. I'll probably keep the actual list of rejected items to implicit
> > self (which started the whole discussion), upgrading the Python parser
> > beyond a simple LL(1), and maybe implicit ()'s for functioncalls, if I feel
> > inspired. The exact wording, and additional rejects, can be discussed at
> > length by those interested.
>
> I'll help with this.  That means I want to and intend to, and will
> discover that I can't actually make any time for it.  With two of us
> putting it off indefinitely, it should get done in half the time ;-).

Make it a third.  I am willing to help out as needed since I already
keep an eye out for Py3K stuff.  Watching for stuff we don't want to
discuss again is not that much harder.  =)

-Brett