From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-03-28T08:01:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Equivalent to "this" keyword in Java?

On 3/27/06, Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net> wrote:
> If I am writing a method and I want to refer to the instance of the
> object itself, do I use "self"?  Can I use "this"?  Is "this" an alias
> for "self"?
>

It's "self", and it can also be used to differentiate between local
variables and methods, in the (very rare, usually Rails-based)
situations where there can be ambiguity.