reserved words?
Brian Keefer
mgomes21 at cox.net
Mon Nov 4 05:13:57 UTC 2002
Michael Vanier wrote:
>
> self, super, nil, true, and false come to mind. I'm not sure if they are
> technically reserved. They are called "pseudovariables" in ST jargon.
> "true" and "false" are also pseudovariables, but they are singleton
> instances of class True and False respectively. Similarly, nil is the
> singleton instance of class UndefinedObject. So that just leaves self and
> super ;-)
>
thisContext is the other magical reserved word. Looking quickly at its
users (higlight it in a text window, and yellow click "more.../Method
source with it"), it makes exceptions, debuggers, and other clever
mechanisms work.
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