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		batista on May 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby 1.9 lands NaCl support, can run in Chrome Well, Python has "self", that you have to explicitly pass. Not the best example.

lucian1900 on May 20, 2012 [–]

But Python's methods already have self curried in. Class.foo(self, x) takes two arguments, but instance.foo(x) already has self bound, and only takes on argument.

This lets you do bar = instance.foo; bar(x) and it'll still work. Much more consistent.

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