r> I do not like self, and i lamented it from day one, now it is second r> nature to me but does that mean it is really needed?? I feel i have r> been brainwashed into its usage.
... r> 3000 would have been the perfect time to dump self and really clean up r> the language, and it's not too late, dawn is not upon us yet. Bruce Eckel proposes removing self from argument lists: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=239003 Guido responds: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-explicit-self-has-to-stay.html -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://smontanaro.dyndns.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list