Note: information on this page refers to Ceylon 1.2, not to the current release.
this
this refers to the current instance of the immediately containing class or interface.
Usage
This example shows this being used to distingush a member value from a
parameter of the same name:
class Example(foo) {
String foo;
String foofoo(String foo)
=> this.foo + foo;
}
Description
Type
The type of this is the type of the immediately containing class or interface.
In the above example this has the type Example.
Legal use
Because this refers to the instance of the containing class or interface
it cannot be used in contexts where there is no such class or interface,
such as top level methods or values.
