"self" in a class is annoying and errorprone

[Alex Martelli]

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Meinrad Recheis wrote:
   ...
> shouldn t that be discussed for the sake of PYTHON?

Most definitely no: it has been discussed a zillion times in
the past, e.g.:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=9bkvi30uf8%40news1.newsguy.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dself%2Bfirst%2Bargument%2Bc%252B%252B%2Bauthor:alex%2Bauthor:martelli%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26selm%3D9bkvi30uf8%2540news1.newsguy.com%26rnum%3D1
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=915n4k0gbp%40news2.newsguy.com&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dself%2Bfirst%2Bargument%2Bc%252B%252B%2Bauthor:alex%2Bauthor:martelli%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26selm%3D915n4k0gbp%2540news2.newsguy.com%26rnum%3D3
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=8vlfnd01atc%40news2.newsguy.com&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dself%2Bfirst%2Bargument%2Bc%252B%252B%2Bauthor:alex%2Bauthor:martelli%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26selm%3D8vlfnd01atc%2540news2.newsguy.com%26rnum%3D5

just to take three such threads at random (easily found with
google groups).  Please find and read all such threads and
come back if and when you have any substantial arguments that
you think are stronger than those which were demolished on
those threads, thanks.


Alex