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5 points by raymyers 6117 days ago | link | parent

Most OO languages don't just "implicitly bind" self; self (or this) is usually a reserved word. A conflict with another variable is made impossible because you can't say "int this = 4" in Java or C++. As pointed out, Python already makes the binding explicit.

Further, let us imagine for a moment that lambda closures and class instances are ... different things.