“ When I’m writing code within an object, my mental model puts me as the object interacting with other objects and “self” is the natural english expression of this. The use of “this” instead suggests some external command issuer directing the object that may have a perspective on the system that is different and wider than the object’s perspective.
Steve Dekorte on “This vs. Self”
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