Using Caché Objects - InterSystems Documentation

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Object-Specific ObjectScript
Features
ObjectScript includes a number of features that provide special functionality within object
methods. These are:
• .. Syntax — For accessing a property or calling a method of the current object
• ##Class Syntax — For invoking a class method or for casting an object reference as
another class to call a method
• ##this Syntax — For getting a handle to the OREF of the current instance, such as for
passing it to another class or for another class to refer to the current instance's members.
• ##super Syntax — For invoking a superclass method from within a subclass method
• i% Syntax — For referencing an instance variable from within its own
Get or Set accessor method, or bypassing its Get or Set method
21.1 .. Syntax
The .. syntax provides a mechanism for referencing another method or property of the current
object. For example, suppose there is a Bricks property of type %Integer:
Property Bricks As %Integer;
A CountBricks method can then refer to Bricks with .. syntax:
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