Chris Rebert a écrit : (snip)
Default values are only evaluated once, when the class is defined,
<clarification target="newcomers"> s/class/function/The function objects (defined in a class statement body...) are created before the class object itself.
</clarification>
thus "self" is not defined at that point since the class is still being defined when the method definition is executed and thus there can be no instances yet anyway.
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