[Python-Dev] the explicit self (original) (raw)

Cesare Di Mauro cesare.dimauro at a-tono.com
Wed Aug 27 09:14:05 CEST 2008

On 27 agu 2008 at 08:46:15, Kilian Klimek <kilian.klimek at googlemail.com> 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 regards, Kilian Klimek

I disagree. From "The Zen of Python":

Explicit is better than implicit. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Cheers, Cesare

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