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by Hans Nowak.
Original Post: The importance of being selfish, part 2
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From the comments on my original post, it turns out that some people don't have a problem with the usage of self to indicate instance attributes, but they don't like that it has to be included in the method definition. I can't channel Guido, so I don't know what his intentions were when this feature entered the language. ... [594 words]