From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-01-23T09:47:03+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 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:14:28 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes:

|I don't know, in terms of the other languages.  I don't think it's
|exactly analogous, though.  It's really a bound object, so
|bound_object would probably be the most straightforward.

The term 'bound_object' is not suitable for the Method object model in
my brain.  I want to retrieve the object corresponding to self in that
method.  Among your suggestions, "target" is better than bound_object.
But I still fond of 'receiver'.

|I've also started thinking about the idea of a MethodData class... but
|it's pretty unformulated.

Hmm, I am looking forward.

							matz.