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THIS-OBJECT system reference

A system reference for the currently running object instance within a class.

Syntax

THIS-OBJECT

Use THIS-OBJECT to pass an object reference to the currently running class object instance as a parameter or return an object reference to itself as a method return value.

You cannot use THIS-OBJECT to access the data members or methods within a class.