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(lemmy.ml)
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In Python, self is not a keyword, it’s a conventional variable name. You can replace all instances of “self” with “this” and your code will work the same.
Lua might have been a better choice, since
self
is special in lua.Kinda.
Lua defines it implicitly only when you use the
syntactic sugar, which gets translated to
In all cases,
self
is a regular variable name. You can even redeclare a new local with that name even when the old one is in scope.Edit: some typos
I don't see how what you said is inconsistent with me saying "self" is special in lua. Note that I did not say it's a keyword.
Derp, I misread.