Programming Languages

Mike | 17:59 Mon 11th Feb 2002 | Technology

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philhyde

"Self" is used, in Object Oriented programming theory, to refer inside an object to itself. So if a class is CApple then if an object were a pippin (of that class), then to invoke a method of that object when inside the object you can say that you are invoking a call to self. In C++, self equates to the "this" pointer.

philhyde

Oh yes, and it's a whacky OO programming language (not used it myself but is a step beyond SmallTalk). See http://research.sun.com/self/language.html

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