Re: RFC 152 (v1) Replace $self in @_ with self() builtin (not $ME)

[Tom Christiansen]

>Currently, the current object context is passed into a sub as the first
>element of @_, leading to the familiar construct:

>   my $self = shift;

>However, this is a big PITA. In particular, if you support lots of
>different calling forms (like CGI.pm), you have to check whether $_[0]
>is a ref, etc, etc, etc.

It is?  I don't see that this is a pain at all.  It seems like
a beautiful point of homogenization.  You don't force the user
to say $self; they could use $this if they wanted.  Heck, they 
don't need it at all.

    my(undef, @args) = @_;

Or as in 

    shift->fn(@_)

This is one of the things that Larry, in borrowing much of Perl's
OO from Python, carefully preserved from the parent tongue.  Don't
see why you would break it.

--tom