3oct09 Just discovered, on a hunch, that nobody in their right mind would make the word "self" a reserved word in the syntax for making class constructors. And, Eureka, it ain't. It's a place holder, for the name of the instance in the class. So, it's "everyman". It has to be announced because it gets used. Somebody (Java?) uses an article "this" and it's a reserved word (yuck!). I would tend to use a pronoun which stands for a noun, in this case a name, the name of the element in the class (elements are called "instances" in oopish.)