Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Sat Jan 29 09:03:28 EST 2011

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In article <8qijsgFgu1U1 at mid.dfncis.de>,
 Frank Dierkes <Frank.Dierkes at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Naming the first parameter self is only a convention. It could be any 
> other name, too.

But it shouldn't.  The use of "self" is so universal that using anything 
else will just make your code more difficult for other people to 
understand.

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