Proposal for removing self

[Alex Martelli]

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:

> Andrea Griffini wrote:
> 
> > I remember Alex Martelli advocating in our italian newsgroup on
> > C++ that C++ programmers should use "this->..." everywhere :-)
> 
> I evangelise this here (mainly for Java code these days, but close
> enough). Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to convince anyone else

While it's also a good idea in Java, it's not as compelling as in C++,
because Java mostly lacks the complications due to C++'s templates and
freestanding ("not inside a class") names (haven't looked at Java
generics so I don't know if they got those complications back in;-).


Alex