All this self dot is making me...
Stian Husemoen
stianh at ifi.uio.no
Wed Jun 2 12:07:48 EDT 1999
Michael P. Reilly wrote:
> The convention is to use "self". It was the adoption of the original
> object-oriented language (SmallTalk) in the early '70s. Why did C++
> change it to "this"? I don't know.. probably just to be different.
SmallTalk was _not_ the first object-oriented language. Simula
introduced OO as early as 1967... Simula uses "this".
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Stian Husemoen <stianh>
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