Question

In Objective-C when you have

[A something]

A is referred to as the ‘receiver’. I am wondering what the equivalent term is in other object-orientated languages, particularly method calling ones as opposed to message passing ones.

Caller/Callee refers to the actual methods themselves I think, not the object. Also I’m not sure about ‘instance’ as in the language I’m working with, Vala, you can actually call methods on structs and namespaces, which you wouldn’t classify as objects or instances.

What are people’s thoughts?

Answer 1

I think the most common term is just “the object”. In Python it is traditionally called self.