From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T15:16:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: Object#send(nil) -> self

daz wrote:
> "Its Me" wrote:
> 
> 
>>Perhaps ... see http://rcrchive.net/rcr/RCR/RCR249
> 
> 
> Just looked (and voted in favour) assuming that what
> your requesting is Object#to_self.
> 
> I just re-read the thread and didn't see that suggested
> anywhere.
> 
> If you resubmitted with the more ruby-like name,
> it might be more obvious that your request is reasonable.
> 
> Even more strongly, I wonder why it's not in Ruby now.

I'm not entirely sure I see a need for it, but I don't
object to it.

As for the name, personally I don't see that "self" would
conflict anywhere. You wouldn't be calling it from within
the object's methods, and if you did, well... you would
just get the "self" we have always had.

"self" with a receiver, obj.self, does not currently have
any meaning I'm aware of.


Hal