Yukihiro Matsumoto
1/22/2007 12:52:00 PM
Hi,
In message "Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method'"
on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:30:38 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes:
|I've always found it very helpful (for myself and others) to keep the
|whole sequence very visible (message sending, method lookup, method
|execution), and I think that using "receiver" as an attribute of a
|method object does a short-circuit in the terminology that makes it
|harder to explain and understand.
Hmm, OK, what terminology do you use for "this" (or self) in languages
without message passing model (e.g. C++ or Java)? That should be the
appropriate term for it. I use "receiver" for them too, since I have
strong Smalltalk influence.
matz.