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by paulddraper 3305 days ago
> the Java designers seem to have thought it was worth something, since Java has a somewhat similar feature: a method calling another method on the same object can leave out "this".

True, though the reason what that Java should be "familiar", so it did the same thing as C++.

IMO, Python did the right thing by not having magic variables.

Functional code + this starts getting messy, ala JS.