On Nov 24, 2:38 am, "BJörn Lindqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The big deal is that "self." occupies important horizontal screen real
> estate. That is, it is usually not self in itself that is problematic,
Exactly. I understand and appreciate all the scoping qualification
and explicit"ation" needs, but I still want my code to look good and
uncluttered after all is said and done. Using indentation saves us
from all those end's or {}, no less annoying than self, -- then the
self comes along and defeats the purpose of conciseness.
> but the overflowing lines is. Take this silly vector class for
> > suppose that the syntax were
> > expanded so that, in a method, a dot
> > ".", as a precursor to an identifier,
> > was treated as "self." is currently treated?
>
> I like that a lot. This saves 12 characters for the original example
> and removes the need to wrap it.
>
> 7 return math.sqrt(.x * .x + .y * .y + .z * .z)
>
> +1 Readability counts, even on small screens.
Hear, hear! Dear G-ds of Python, pls give us a --dotself option!
Cheers,
Alexy
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