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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:37:07 +0200
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Dennis Hoppe wrote:

> Indeed Java relieves me of state "this".

When I started writing Java many years ago, I too thought that
like in the Java books, when I want to name an object's
component it is not neccessary to refer to the object.
So don't do that, leave out "this".
But now I find myself writing "this.a" and "this.b" all the
time, to make sure I can easily see what "a" actually stands
for: does it name a component or does it name a method parameter
or local variable? With "this" there is no question. There is
almost never a question in Ada because you always name the
object in some way.