From: wsdngtmp@... (Sascha Doerdelmann)
Date: 2004-05-12T17:58:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: Object#send(nil) -> self

"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> Instead of sending (nil) to get the object, what about sending :self or
> :identity (if :self is a problematic choice of name).

If you really need a method returning self, please name it #yourself.

[OT:
The common usage for #yourself in Smalltalk is at the end of a message
cascade:

^anObject
  messageWithParam: param;
  messageWithoutParam;
  anotherMessageToAnObject;
  andSoOn: untilYouLike;
  yourself  

The ^ is a return. I've added it to indicate that anObject will be
used later on. I think I've seen proposals for this kind of syntactic
sugar in this group before. One of the main differences between my
code in Ruby and in Smalltalk is that I use more temporary variables
in Ruby.
]

Cheers
Sascha