There isn't one, because "explicit is better than implicit". Personally I've always found that Java's optional-self syntax to be incredibly confusing when readi

There isn't one, because "explicit is better than implicit". Personally I've always found that Java's optional-self syntax to be incredibly confusing when reading code. You could try to monkeypatch it by creating a decorator that will mess around with the closures of methods to make it work, but I don't understand _why_ you would want to do that.