From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T21:51:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method'

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.