the annoying, verbose self

[Ayaz Ahmed Khan]

braver wrote:

> Is there any trick to get rid of having to type the annoying,
> character-eating "self." prefix everywhere in a class?  Sometimes I
> avoid OO just not to deal with its verbosity.  In fact, I try to use
> Ruby anywhere speed is not crucial especially for @ prefix is better-
> looking than self.

I've never really understood why some people find that annoying to do.  I 
make it a point to use, for example, the `this` operator when writing C++ 
code to avoid implicilty calling/accessing attributes of objects as much 
as possible.

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Ayaz Ahmed Khan