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I came to the Swift forums eager to debate. Instead, I found `Self` censorship

delete this;

the real greatest debate in programming languages is `self` vs ` this `

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@mycoliza

Mar 7

personally i prefer `self` because the letters have a nicer shape, but `this` has the nice advantage that the arguments to comparison functions can be named `this` and `that`

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@eddyb_r

Mar 7

I wonder why I go with `self` and `other`, it almost sounds like philosophical usage

gold-star pansexual

@tsion

Mar 7

`fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Ordering` is tasked to determine whether it's the big `other` (l'Autre), the little `other` (l'autre), or the self (mirror stage)

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Always found using `self` and `other` for binary operators like `cmp` and `zip` a bit odd. Kind of like it is forcing one operand to be more ‘special’ than the other operand, when should be more equal. Idk.

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fn cmp(self @ a: &Self, b: &Self) does this work? (other names than a/b are possible, like left/right or lhs/rhs, but I'm more concerned with the syntax)

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Mar 7

Yeah, that’s better