It seems to me that I am running into the so call special this a lot lately. What is the socal special this? I know that using this means the implicit reference to the object that the method is invoked on, generally. So what is the deal with the format of classname.this.something-else?
That is actually called a qualified this statement. Here's an example from my mock exam.
The qualified this expression is used within an inner class to access a member of an enclosing class when the enclosing class member is hidden by a member of the inner class. A similar situation exists when a member of a subclass hides a member of a super class. In that case you would just cast "this" to the type of the superclass.
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