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The meaning of this
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selfas a keyword also has quite a history. It was already used in Smalltalk, an OOP language from the early 80's.Isn't self not actually a keyword? Like you can name the first variable in a class method anything and it will behave like self.
You could use "this" instead of "self". And if you want a lynch mob of Python programmers outside your house, make a push request with that to some commonly used package.
I think there will be a lynch mob of git users outside your house for calling PR as "push request".
I've been wondering about the noise.
Edit: turns out, they weren't there to lynch me. They just gave me a two hour lecture on proper usage of git.
TECHNICALLY, there is no such thing as a pull request in git. That's a Github convention. It's really a merge request
e: drat someone already out-pedantic'd me
only github users. git itself doesn't have PRs, and other forges call them different things. gitlab calls them merge requests, pico calls them patch requests...