Hallöchen! D'Arcy J.M. Cain writes:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:45:21 +0200 > Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Of course, "self" would have to become a reserved word. You >> could say that this may break some code, but I don't see much >> freedom > > Isn't this a showstopper all by itself? Yes. But I've seen no code that uses some other word. Emacs' syntax highlighting even treats it as reserved. So I think that other counter-arguments are stronger. The in my opinion strongest one is that automatic insertion of "self" would make Python less verbose but more complicated. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list