On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method'"
>    on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:14:28 +0900, dblack / wobblini.net writes:
>
> |I don't know, in terms of the other languages.  I don't think it's
> |exactly analogous, though.  It's really a bound object, so
> |bound_object would probably be the most straightforward.
>
> The term 'bound_object' is not suitable for the Method object model in
> my brain.  I want to retrieve the object corresponding to self in that
> method.  Among your suggestions, "target" is better than bound_object.
> But I still fond of 'receiver'.

'receiver' makes perfect sense to me.  so does 'this'.

regards.

-a
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