> > > Here is a link to a tutorial where Sun is talking about the this > > reference: > >http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/thiskey.html > > That's a tutorial for getting you started, no reference > documentation or in-depth course. > Here's a FAQ item where they refer to it as I think Python should have done it - a special predefined variable:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/javap/c5/s5.html "Java provides a special, predefined variable named "this" that you can use for such purposes. The variable, this, is used in the source code of an instance method to refer to the object that contains the method. This intent of the name, this, is to refer to "this object," the one right here that this very method is in. If x is an instance variable in the same object, then this.x can be used as a full name for that variable. If otherMethod() is an instance method in the same object, then this.otherMethod() could be used to call that method. Whenever the computer executes an instance method, it automatically sets the variable, this, to refer to the object that contains the method." "this" is hard to query on but I would be interested in seeing some site talking about Java where "this" is mentioned as being "passed in". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
