On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Patrick Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Well, the linked thread gives many reasons, but as mentioned it is a
> flamewar thread. Philosophically python is not an "object oriented"
> language per say, it has an object system, a not bolted on one I might add,
> bu
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Matthew Fitzgibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Brett g Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>>Robert Dailey wrote:
>>
>>This is an example of a response I'm looking for:
>>
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Robert Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Given the code samples above, is there any technical reason why this cannot
> be done? Thanks for the input guys, and thanks more over for keeping this
> easy-going.
>
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Brett g Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Dailey wrote:
>
> This is an example of a response I'm looking for:
>> "The self parameter is required because the parser is a bit old and needs
>> to know the exact object you're referencing"
>>
>> This is _not_
Brett g Porter:
> Fredrik Lundh has written a very clear explanation of this
> athttp://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-must-self-be-used-explicitly-in-method-de...
Today lot of people know that Ruby exists, so such FAQ explanation
must explain why Python doesn't use a shorter syntax like for example
@foo
Matthew Fitzgibbons wrote:
Robert Dailey wrote:
I've always been curious (more so than annoyed) as to why one must
explicitly specify a "self" parameter for member functions in a class
in Python. This seems very "C" like to me, since to do object oriented
programming in C you must devote one p
Robert Dailey wrote:
This is an example of a response I'm looking for:
"The self parameter is required because the parser is a bit old and
needs to know the exact object you're referencing"
This is _not_ an example of what I'm looking for:
"Specifying self is a great mysterious thing that we
Robert Dailey wrote:
Hi,
I want to point out first of all that I'm not as familiar with Python as
I should be, and for that reason I question a lot of things because I'm
mainly a C++ programmer and I'm used to certain conveniences. Having
said that...
I've always been curious (more so than
Hi,
I want to point out first of all that I'm not as familiar with Python as I
should be, and for that reason I question a lot of things because I'm mainly
a C++ programmer and I'm used to certain conveniences. Having said that...
I've always been curious (more so than annoyed) as to why one must
