Rick Wotnaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've long thought that Guido missed an opportunity by not choosing >to use 'i' as the instance identifier, and making it a reserved >word. For one thing, it would resonate with the personal pronoun >'I', and so carry essentially the same meaning as 'self'. It could >also be understood as an initialism for 'instance'. And, because it >is shorter, the number of objections to its existence *might* have >been smaller than seems to be the case with 'self' as the >convention.
My first serious forays into Python, where no-one else was expected to be maintaining the code, used 'I' instead of 'self' -- it's shorter, stands out better, and 'I.do_something()' reads more like English than 'self.do_something()' (unless, I suppose, you're thinking in terms of message passing). Then I started working on code which other people might need to look at, and got an editor whose Python syntax highlighting pretended that 'self' was a reserved word, and now all my old code looks odd. (But still perfectly readable -- this is Python after all.) -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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