Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so first Guido says he wants people to speculate less, then he says > he wants them to speculate more. Who knows. So, now I speculate more. > > I propose that the self argument be removed from method definitions. It > would not be removed from other places, e.g., you'd still use > "self.foo()", but the definition for that method would be "def foo():".
-1 Why? Because right now the various methods on a class have obvious signature-specific clues as to what they are: instance method (has a leading self), class method (has a leading cls or klass generally), static method (has no leading self, cls, etc.) . Removing self (and possibly even cls if one goes a step farther) ambiguates what kind of method a function definition is, from a signature standpoint. As was said in the decorator discussion; signatures are important and should be grepable (that along with readability is why we didn't see decorators _inside_ the signature). By removing the _explicit_ self, we make instance methods generally undifferentiatable (is that a word?) from a grep standpoint. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
