[Python-Dev] the explicit self

[Michael Foord]

Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> You can provide selfless class as a class with special metaclass that
> overloads __new__ and changes signature of each method. Not sure how
> good is this, but requires no changes to the language and will work as
> you want.
>
>   

Are you advocating this Maciej? ;-)

There's an example that does this here:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/metaclasses.shtml#the-selfless-metaclass

Michael

> Cheers,
> fijal
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Kilian Klimek
> <kilian.klimek at googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> i know this has been discusses very much, i'm sorry,
>> but i can't help it. In a nutshell, the proposal is as
>> follows:
>>
>> 1. Self remains explicit (like it is now).
>> 2. if a class is a subclass of a special class, e.g.
>>    named 'selfless', the self parameter is not required
>>    and a special variable, named 'this' is provided.
>>
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> class Foo (selfless):
>>     def __init__ (x, y):
>>         this.x = x
>>         ...
>>
>> A patch for 3.0b3 implementing this can be found at
>> http://www-lehre.inf.uos.de/~kklimek/misc/python_slp_8.diff
>>
>> regards,
>> Kilian Klimek
>>
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