From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-07-06T07:35:12+09:00
Subject: Re: self_parent

> In ten years of professional software development, a good chunk of
> it doing OO, I have never had a contained class (the child) call a
> method in the containing class (the parent).


I can't think of an instance where I have either.  I've passed self
before, but I can't ever remember thinking it was a good idea.


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