[tus88]

> Nor do I find charming the belligerent lack of any magical syntactic sugar for `self`. Does Python force you to pass it as an argument to make some kind of clever point? Are there psychotic devs out there who call it something other than `self`? Yuck!

If you weren't an ignoramous you would understand it can be something else, like klass.

[dang]

Sorry I'm late here, but obviously you can't post like this. We've banned the account.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[gorgoiler]

You spelled it wrong!

Ruby’s approach is the most delightful, I find. elf is an instance of Elf and in elf.health, self is the elf.

Elf is an instance of Class and in Elf.surpass, self is the Elf class itself.

[rbanffy]

Ruby's irregular syntax drives me crazy. But it is beautiful.

[staticautomatic]

I gotta say as a Python developer I kinda like this compared to thing = Thing()