Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming?

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming?
Date	2011-04-23 18:32 -0400
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Lew wrote:
> The reason I don't see any value is that, for an instance method of a class
> 'Foo' and an invocation of that method through an instance 'foo', the method
> already has access to 'this'. What possible benefit could there be to
> providing an additional pointer to the same object through the argument list?
>
> Please note that I asked a question to which I sincerely hope for an answer
> from you.

Never mind, Stefan Ram answered it.

-- 
Lew
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Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> - 2011-04-24 00:10 +0200
  Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-23 18:31 -0400
    Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-23 18:32 -0400
  Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> - 2011-04-24 00:57 +0200
  Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-24 06:55 -0700
  Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-04-24 12:01 -0400
    Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-24 15:21 -0400
      Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-24 12:54 -0700
        Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-24 17:26 -0400
          Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-24 14:42 -0700
            Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-24 21:06 -0400

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