Deprecate self
piet at cs.uu.nl
piet at cs.uu.nl
Wed Apr 18 10:36:10 EDT 2001
>>>>> "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> (AM) writes:
AM> "Dave LeBlanc" <whisper at oz.net> wrote in message
AM> news:9bji5k$417$0 at 216.39.170.247...
>> Since self is used for every method of every class, isn't it a bit
>> redundant?
AM> Not really. Explicit is better than implicit.
>> I don't know of another OO language that makes you manually
>> carry around the "this"/"self" pointer/reference...
AM> Modula-3, for example (I believe 'self' is a reserved word
AM> there; in Python, it's "just" a 'universal' convention).
And Corbascript/IDLscript, which heavily borrowed concepts from Python
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