please please please add THIS aswell as SELF
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| I can't tell you how many times I have written this.field inside a method. It is doing my nut, I am so used to typing this.field in many other languages. Please please please please please can 'this' be added as an optional alternative to 'self'. |
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| Well you shouldn't be going self.field or this.field, there is no need. Inside a method, just go 'field'. Unless you're naming your arguments to a method the same as your fields and if you're doing that, don't and you'll be OK. Aaron |
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| What Aaron said. Both self/this are only supposed to be used when passing an object on to another method as an arguement! |
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| Ok well my point still stands :) I simply prefer this to self. |
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| also, if self=list.first() |
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| I've been using Self.blah inside methods to keep it as clear as possible what's going on. |
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| Tom, give it up :). Use some other method. Maybe underscore your member/private fields (They should all be private really) so it's easy to understand and a lot less typing :) Aaron |
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| Why? Self. takes a split second to type :) |
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| And an underscore even less, 1/5th the time :) |
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| I'm glad you guys (and gals?) are talking about this `self` stuff, at least, I was beginning to wonder if it was needed inside a method or not. Cheers. I guess it doesn't make things any slower to add the self. part? |
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| Aaronk: I give _ a go, what I found was that I need to look at the keyboard when I type shift & - (too many typos), where as I don't typing Self :) Self.Cya! Tom :) |
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| Hahaha! Fair enough! ;) |
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