Michael Ekstrand wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:08:24PM +0000, Mark Harrison wrote: > >>Is there a way to get rid of those the "self." references, or is this >>just something I need to get my brain to accept? > > > It's pretty much just something you'll need to get your brain to accept. > You can replace self with something shorter, like s, but that's sure to > cause mass confusion for other people who try to read your code. > > I, however, find that the self. references are a great benefit to > readability, as it makes the scope of a variable quite easy to tell. A > lot of my C++ code is littered with `this->' or similar > explicit-scope-description things... > > - Michael
This fits perfectly with "Explicit is better than implicit." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list