Unification of Methods and Functions

[David MacQuigg]

On Mon, 03 May 2004 13:11:17 +1200, Greg Ewing
<greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

>David MacQuigg wrote:
>> The concept of using a
>> global variable __self__ is no surprise at all.
>
>Except that __self__ can't be a global variable.
>Implementing it that way would be a disaster.

It seems to work in Michele Simionato's 'prototype' module.
{ comp.lang.python, 4/28/04, "Prototypes in Python"}  It is global
only to the called function, but the key requirement is met -- no
alteration of the standard function calling sequence.

Why can't it be a true global?

-- Dave