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--- at:tutorial:objects [2007/07/02 13:43] – jorge
+++ at:tutorial:objects [2007/07/03 09:57] – jorge
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 <note important>
-In AmbientTalk, ''self'' and ''super'' indicate the current object and its parent respectively. While the former corresponds a language keyword the latter is just a field name of the object.
+In AmbientTalk, ''self'' and ''super'' indicate the current object and its parent respectively. While the former corresponds to a language keyword the latter is just a field name of the object.
 </note>
 ===== First-class delegation =====
-AmbientTalk provides an explicit delegation operator ''^''. The code below illustrates the use of this operator in the implementation of the ''init'' method of the ''point3D'' object.
+AmbientTalk provides an explicit delegation operator ''^'' (the "caret" or "hat" symbol). The code below illustrates the use of the ''^'' operator in the implementation of the ''init'' method of the ''point3D'' object.
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 </code>
-A message sent to an object using this symbol (e.g. to the parent object in the example above) will first look for the method that matches the selector indicated in the message in this object (and its parents) and then execute the method body in the lexical scope of the message sender.
+A message sent to an object using the ''^'' symbol (e.g. to the parent object in the example above) will start the method lookup in this object (and its parents) and then execute the method body in the lexical scope of the message sender (''self'' is bound to the message sender).
 ===== Encapsulation =====