is SELF a naughty OOP construct?

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From: Gregory Weeks
Date: Fri, 27 May 1988 19:02

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I have a suspicion that the SELF construct may turn out to be the GOTO of
object-oriented programming.  That is, it is too powerful and unstructured.
However, I have no arguments to back up this suspicion.

Does anyone?

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From: weeks@hplb29a.HPL.HP.COM (Gregory Weeks)
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Subject: is SELF a naughty OOP construct?
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Date: 27 May 88 19:02:13 GMT
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