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The Current Object

When you invoke a method on an object, that object becomes the current object. Inside the method, you can refer to the instance variables of the current object by name, without having to specify the name of the object.

Also, you can refer to the current object using the keyword this. We have already seen this used in constructors. In fact, you can think of constructors as being a special kind of object method.



Last Update: 2011-01-24