Self Suck Boobs - Brightlocal News
For a language-agnostic consideration of the design decision, see what is the advantage of having this/self pointer mandatory explicit?. To close debugging questions where op omitted a self. By making the self reference explicit, you're free to refer to any object by that self reference.
See why do i get 'takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)' when trying to call a method? For the opposite problem.
