Deprecate self

[D-Man]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:10:43PM +0200, Steve Purcell wrote:
| Rainer Deyke wrote:
| > My C++ code has become much more readable since I started referring to
| > member variables through 'this'.
| 
| I had the same experience with Java. Writing 'this' also helps to avoid
| having to artificially mutate variable names that are logically related
| in code such as:
...
| Now, I've admittedly been corrupted by Python,

Same here.

It doesn't work quite as nicely with inner classes though :

public class Bar extends JFrame
{
    public Bar()
    {
        JButton b = new JButton( "Hello" ) ;
        b.addActionListener( new ActionListener()
            {
                public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e )
                {
                    this.doSomething() ;
                }
            } ) ;

        this.getContentPane().add( b ) ;
    }

    public void doSomething()
    {
        System.out.println( "Button pressed" ) ;
    }
}


    
$ jikes -classpath d:/jdk1.2.2/lib/rt.jar  Bar.java

Found 1 semantic error compiling "D:/apps/cygwin/home/derrick/tmp/random_checks/
Bar.java":

    15.                     this.doSomething() ;
                            <---------------->
*** Error: No method named "doSomething" was found in type "Bar$1".


OTOH inner classes are used so heavily because functions aren't
     objects and thus can't be used as callbacks/event handlers


-D