{"id":1800,"date":"2008-10-26T14:32:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2008-10-26T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T18:32:28","slug":"why-explicit-self-has-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/26\/why-explicit-self-has-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Explicit self Has to Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neopythonic.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/why-explicit-self-has-to-stay.html\">Guido van Rossum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/neopythonic.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/why-explicit-self-has-to-stay.html\">\n<p>When a method definition is decorated, we don&rsquo;t know whether to automatically give it a &lsquo;self&rsquo; parameter or not: the decorator could turn the function into a static method (which has no &lsquo;self&rsquo;), or a class method (which has a funny kind of self that refers to a class instead of an instance), or it could do something completely different (it&rsquo;s trivial to write a decorator that implements &lsquo;@classmethod&rsquo; or &lsquo;@staticmethod&rsquo; in pure Python). There&rsquo;s no way without knowing what the decorator does whether to endow the method being defined with an implicit &lsquo;self&rsquo; argument or not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like explicit <code>self<\/code>, anyway.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guido van Rossum: When a method definition is decorated, we don&rsquo;t know whether to automatically give it a &lsquo;self&rsquo; parameter or not: the decorator could turn the function into a static method (which has no &lsquo;self&rsquo;), or a class method (which has a funny kind of self that refers to a class instead of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}