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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition
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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

by Julie Anderson, Herve J. Franceschi
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1288 pages
39h 39m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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402 CHAPTER 7 Object-Oriented Programming,Part 2: User-Defined Classes
When a method begins executing, the JVM sets the object reference, this, to
refer to the object for which the method has been called. That object is
called the implicit parameter. When a method references an instance vari-
able, it will access the instance variable that belongs to the object that the
implicit parameter references. In other words, by default, any instance vari-
able referred to by a method is considered to be this.instanceVariable.
Preceding an instance variable name with this is optional; when just the
instance variable name is used (without any object reference), ...
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ISBN: 9780763749637