how to give an object as argument for a method

[Marco Herrn]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:28:09PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Marco Herrn wrote:
> > 
> > hmm, do I have to implement that in _every_ method or just in
> > methods who use the 'self' statement?
> 
> In every method. The instance is always passed in
> as the first parameter, so there must be a parameter
> there to receive it, even if it's not used inside
> the method.

Is there a reason why this is just a convention? It seems (because it is
such a _strong_ convention) that this should be a real feature of the
language. I mean that there could be a reserved word "self" which is
there all the time, so that one doesn't hast to do this himself.

Bye
Marco

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