On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dan Sommers <d...@tombstonezero.net> wrote: > And then, at least in C++, you see coding standards that demand that > member variables (aka instance variables aka attributes) be named in > such a way that you can tell that they're member variables and not local > variables (one common convenstion is that all member variables begin > with "m_"). IMO, that's a concession that all that implicitness and > convenience just causes confusion. In Python, the names of all instance > attributes begin with "self."
Either that, or it's a concession that bureaucracy has no idea what makes for good code. One or t'other. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list