Russ P. wrote:
On Jul 27, 12:39 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
All I am suggesting is that the programmer have the option of replacing "self.member" with simply ".member", since the word "self" is arbitrary and unnecessary.
I presume you are proposing the opposite also, that ".member" would internally be expanded to "self.member".
As I said before, that, or something near like it (it is hard to exactly compare underspecified proposals) has be suggested and rejected, even if someone gave you not the exact reference. For one thing, as Guido noted, a single . can be hard to see and easy to miss, depending on one's eyesight, environmental lighting, and exact display medium, including font.
I suspect Guido's other reasons have been covered, but I do not want misquote him. I will leave you to search the pydev list archives.
> Otherwise, everything would work *EXACTLY* the same as it does now. If I understand you, that would mean that .attribute would raise NameError: name 'self' is not defined if used anywhere where 'self' was not defined. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
