[Openmcl-devel] How to determine a method's instance to access slot values

Phil pbpublist at comcast.net
Wed May 17 19:14:30 PDT 2006


Gary Byers wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Phil wrote:
> 
>> My general question is how to determine/access an object instance within
>> an objective-C method which doesn't pass the instance as a parameter.
> 
> The "receiver" (the object that "receives the message", in ObjC
> terms) is always passed as a parameter.
> 
> DEFINE-OBJC-METHOD names this parameter SELF (in whatever package
> is current when the DEFINE-OBJC-METHOD form is expanded) and declares
> it to be IGNORABLE.
> 

Gary,

Excellent... problem solved.  That's exactly what I would have expected 
had I thought to try it ;-)  It might be worth putting this info into 
the Cocoa Bridge doc.

Thanks,
Phil




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