On Aug 3, 9:29 am, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 28, 8:46 pm, "Russ P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Letting "self" (or whatever the first argument was) be implied in > > ".cat" does absolutely *NOTHING* to change the internal workings of > > the Python interpreter. It's a very simple idea that you insist on > > making complicated. As I said, I could write a pre-processor myself to > > implement it in less than a day. > > I implemented such a pre-processor 6+ years ago and I am absolutely > sure > I was not to first one to reinvent this particular wheel.
I have found the relevant thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread6a7dd33dc287481f/3210d0be45113c23?hl=en&lnk=gst&=simionato+no+self#3210d0be45113c23 See also the comment by Alex Martelli. M.S. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list