Why the 'self' argument?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <vlh7otscuo8gb1 at news.supernews.com>, John Roth wrote:

> Technically, it would be possible to make "self" a reserved
> word, and not have to put it in the method declaration.
> However, there are a lot of people who use something other than
> the word "self," so that would break existing code.

It would also make the language more complex and irregular.

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