In <0dc26f12-2541-4d41-8678-4fa53f347...@g9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> "T.
Goodchild" <tgoodch...@gmail.com> writes:
> So why is 'self' necessary on class methods? It seems to me that the
> most common practice is that class methods *almost always* operate on
> the instance that called them. It would make more sense to me if this
> was assumed by default, and for "static" methods (methods that are
> part of a class, but never associated with a specific instance) to be
> labelled instead.
> Just curious about the rationale behind this part of the language.
How would a method access instance variables without 'self'?
They probably could have made 'self' a magical attribute that just
appears out of thin air instead of being passed as an argument, like
'this' in C++. But would that really provide any benefit?
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