Re: NewEra question

Posted in 1996

David W Chan — Tue, 02 Jul 1996 19:22:03 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

earleb@bcs.com (Earle Beach) wrote: >In article <31D8904F.62E3@syd.au.swissbank.com>, carrign@syd.au.swissbank.com >says... >> >>Is there an equivalent of C++'s "this" pointer in NewEra? I can't find >>a reference to it in the documentation. >There is a 'SELF,' but it appears to be a lot more limited. For instance, >you cannot have an object pass a reference to itself using 'SELF.' I've >had a tech support case open for sometime on this and just this morning >I got an "are you still interested or can we close it?" call on it. You can pass SELF as a parameter to a function. i.e. call aFunction (self) David W Chan GO5 Limited david@go5.com (work) dwc@cix.compulink.co.uk (home)