Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > Absolutely. I've written quite a lot of code (which I wasn't expecting > anyone else to maintain) using 'I' for the same reasons. Plus, it's > even shorter in terms of characters (if not keystrokes), stands out > reasonably well, and for how I read it makes for better English > grammar (eg I.send_response(...) -- I guess it depends on whether > you're doing the mental transformation of method call to message > passing).
I didn't like 'I' because: 1. i don't like caps except for constants (which it sorta is, i guess) 2. it's too close to 'i' which is standard for temporary loop variables 3. the bad grammar (for message passing) is all the fun! > I stopped doing this when I started (a) maintaining other people's > Python code, and having them maintain mine and (b) using editors > whose Python syntax highlighting coloured "self" as special. > "Readability counts" wins over a couple of extra characters. Sadly, tis true. Which makes me wish they'd just hard-coded 'self' for the damn thing in the first place. Nothing worse than knowing what you're missing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
