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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: should "self" be changed?
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 21:45:36 +0100
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On 26/05/2015 21:26, garabik-news-2005-05@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk wrote:
> zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would it be prudent to rid the long-standing "argument" (pun
>> unintended) about self and the ulterior spellings of it, by changing
>> it into a symbol rather than a name?
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> class MyClass(object):
>>
>>      def __init__(@):
>>          @.dummy = None
>
> Believe or not, python3 (via Guido's time machine) already anticipated
> this suggestion and you can indeed use a symbol instead of 'self':
>
> class MyClass(object):
>
>     def __init__(ስ):
>         ስ.dummy = None
>

Apart from breaking all the tools that rely on "self" being spelt "self" 
this looks like an excellent idea.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence