All that to say, if your going to be putting "this" in front of every
class
member in AS2 and in AS3 you'll be missing the neat advantage of
simplicity.
As it were, the classes I write are rarely self-referential. Properties
such as position, visibility, etc, are usually handled elsewhere or by other
means rather than directly referring to itself, so you won't find "this" in
my code a lot either. When it does appear it is the rare exception, not the
rule, but by the same token, you also won't find referenceless method calls
either. I very, very rarely put something like "this._visible=false;" in a
constructor, and usually only because it's a quickie, one-off project that
won't need to be maintained, and even if maintenance is required, there is
usually only one class to deal with and everything is right there. But when
I do something like that, I always use "this", just so that it's clear what
I'm referring to.
You also rarely find _parent references in my code, because usually when
I need a reference to the parent, I pass that reference in at creation time
and store it as a member variable in the class. If it's not important enough
to be a member of the class, then it probably isn't necessary, and if it's
necessary, it's important enough to be a member. So really, "this" is the
only
ryanm
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