thisContext question

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Sun Apr 28 19:09:43 UTC 2002


On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Avi Bryant wrote:

> > That is why the sender is nil, because the object that sent the
> > message 'run' WAS the nil object.
>
> No, you're confusing sender and receiver.  The receiver is indeed nil, the
> sender is shown as nil because it's been nilled out when the context
> returned.

Sorry, that wasn't said very well.  When inside "Test run" evaluated from
a workspace, "thisContext sender receiver" is what's nil.  "thisContext
receiver" is of course Test.




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