Re: Self and Me: Function vs Keyword

[Stuart Malin <stuart at ossayu dot com>]

Must've been a timing issue of the emails getting out ...
I presume that since you wrote this you've seen Aaron's reply.

Technically, they are keywords.  I guess it could be said that they
"supply" a value, rather than "return" a value.


On Sunday, February 29, 2004, at 03:01 PM, CV wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart Malin" <stuart at ossayu dot com>
> To: "REALbasic Network Users Group" 
> <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
> 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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