[icebraining]

The advantage is that you get to name the receiver instead of having to use a keyword name like `this` or `self`. I've come to like this design decision.

self, at least if you're talking about Python, is not a keyword, it's just a convention. You can use whatever your want.

[leshow]

It's not just python that uses self. Rust, for example, it's sugar for self: Self