[Python-Dev] the explicit self (original) (raw)
Gary Herron gherron at islandtraining.com
Wed Aug 27 09:12:50 CEST 2008
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Kilian Klimek wrote:
Hello,
i know this has been discusses very much, i'm sorry, but i can't help it. In a nutshell, the proposal is as follows: 1. Self remains explicit (like it is now). 2. if a class is a subclass of a special class, e.g. named 'selfless', the self parameter is not required and a special variable, named 'this' is provided.
For example: class Foo (selfless): def init (x, y): this.x = x ... A patch for 3.0b3 implementing this can be found at http://www-lehre.inf.uos.de/~kklimek/misc/pythonslp8.diff <http://www-lehre.inf.uos.de/%7Ekklimek/misc/pythonslp8.diff>
Why not just do this?
class Foo: def init (this, x, y): this.x = x
It's fewer characters, it gets rid of the "self" you seem to dread, and it requires no patches or changes of any kind to Python. And most importantly, has no need to introduce any "magic" into the language.
Gary Herron
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