Jason Johnson wrote:
> I'm sorry, I don't get you.
>
> On 9/13/07, Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org> wrote:
>   
>> Jason Johnson wrote:
>>     
>>> I personally wouldn't want to see Smalltalk get things like the
>>> implicit self, splitting us further from other Smalltalks and even
>>> ourselves as we split into the "implicit self" versus "explicit self"
>>> groups as C++ did, only to decide explicit self was best practices
>>> after years of fighting about it.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> "The shoe." No. "The Gourd." ... repeat forever ...
>>
>> ;-)
>>     
Hi,

It's a reference to the Monty Python movie "The Life Of Brian" (a parody 
set in the time of Jesus) wherein Brian ends up with a two groups of 
cult followers, one worshiping the gourd that he drank from and another 
worshiping the shoe that he wore. It's a comment on "implicit self" v.s. 
"explicit self". Quite a funny movie too.

"Monty Python's Life of Brian is a 1979 comedy written and performed by 
the Monty Python comedy team. It tells the story of Brian Cohen (played 
by Graham Chapman), a young man born on the same night and the same 
street as Jesus Christ."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python's_Life_of_Brian

Cheers,

Peter