Re: newbie: self.member syntax seems /really/ annoying

Charles Fox wrote:

I've just started playing around with Python, as a possible
replacement for a mix of C++, Matlab and Lisp. The language looks
lovely and clean with one huge exception: I do a lot of numerical
modeling, so I deal with objects (like neurons) described
mathematically in papers, by equations like

I thought it was horrible when I started, but now when looking at somebody
else's C++ code I find it very hard to work out whether something is a
global, a member or a local variable, unless they use some sort of naming
convention.

If you alias self as "s", it's only two more characters per variable access,
which is the same as the C++ "m_" naming convention.

--
Jeremy Sanders
http://www.jeremysanders.net/
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