Inheriting the @ sign from Ruby

[Moshe Zadka]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Roy Katz <katz at Glue.umd.edu> wrote:

> Why not bind @ to the first argument of method definitions? Consider:
> 
> 
>   class X:
> 
>     def __init__( self, x ):
> 
>       @bind(x)     # binds to 'self', because 
>                    # 'self' is the first argument to __init__
> 
>     def bind(myself, x):
>       @x = x   # equivalent to myself.x

If you're requiring the "@" anyway, why not write the self. and be 
maximally obvious?

Explicit is better then implicit.
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