Good question. I don't know the intent of a documentation change.
However, I believe that self and me are both built-in functions and
keywords. They are functions because they provide a return (an instance
reference), and of course all function names are keywords.
Jack
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From: "Stuart Malin" <stuart at ossayu dot com>
To: "REALbasic Network Users Group" <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware
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Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 3:46 PM
Subject: Self and Me: Function vs Keyword
> I know this is an unnecessarily detailed query , but I like to
> understand things well.
>
> Prior to 5.5, Self and Me were described in the Lang Ref as Functions.
>
> In the 5.5 Lang Ref they are described as Keywords.
> t
> I know it likely makes no difference to the code we write, but if the
> folks at
> REALsoftware saw fit to change the descriptions, is there a reason other
> than accuracy about how Self and Me are actually implemented?
>
> I presume that the compiler does its magic with these; that there are no
> built-in callable functions by these names. Is this right?
>
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