In article <Xns### [at] 204213191226> , "Rafal 'Raf256' 
Maj" <raf### [at] raf256com> wrote:

>> specification of the exact scope you are working on.  But why would
>> you want to have to write "self.radius = 1" if you could just as well
>> implement it such that you can write "radius = 1"?
>
> because this is needed to pass current object (this) to other function.
> same as in C++ you would write draw(this);  and not :
> temporary_object = { ... };
> draw(temporary_object);

Not really.  As you cannot reference other objects than the current one
anyway you would not need to pass that information, it would already be
known.

    Thorsten

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