Got it.  I was auto-creating a variable named "this" before :).

Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> On 3/27/06, Wes Gamble <weyus / att.net> wrote:
>> If I am writing a method and I want to refer to the instance of the
>> object itself, do I use "self"?  Can I use "this"?  Is "this" an alias
>> for "self"?
>>
> 
> It's "self", and it can also be used to differentiate between local
> variables and methods, in the (very rare, usually Rails-based)
> situations where there can be ambiguity.


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