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What is Self?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ."Self" is used, in Object Oriented programming theory, to refer inside an object to itself. So if a class is CApple then if an object were a pippin (of that class), then to invoke a method of that object when inside the object you can say that you are invoking a call to self. In C++, self equates to the "this" pointer.
Oh yes, and it's a whacky OO programming language (not used it myself but is a step beyond SmallTalk).
See http://research.sun.com/self/language.html
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