Apple WebObjects 3.5 - Manual (Page 178)

Chapter 10 The WebScript Language
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The postincrement and postdecrement operators are not supported. They
behave like the preincrement and predecrement operators. For example:
// WATCH OUT!! Probably not what you want.
i = 0;
while (i++ < 1) {
//this loop never gets executed because i++ is a preincrement.
}
Reserved Words
WebScript includes the following reserved words:
if
else
for
while
id
break
continue
self
super
nil
YES
NO
Three reserved words are special kinds of references to objects: self , super , and nil .
You can use these reserved words in any method.
self refers to the object (the WOApplication object, the WOSession object, or the
WOComponent object) associated with a script. When you send a message to
self , you’re telling the object associated with the script to perform a method that’s
implemented in the script. For example, suppose you have a script that
implements the method
giveMeARaise . From another method in the same script,
you could invoke giveMeARaise as follows:
[self giveMeARaise];
This tells the WOApplication, WOSession, or WOComponent object associated
with the script to perform its
giveMeARaise method.
When you send a message to self , the method doesn’t have to be physically
located in the script file. Remember that part of the advantage of object-
oriented programming is that a subclass automatically implements all of its
superclass’s methods. For example, WOComponent defines a method named
application , which retrieves the WOApplication associated with this component.
Thus, you can send this message in any of your components to retrieve the
application object: