Introduction to OOP

Chapter 27: Implementation :

The Corresponding Formal Argument

On the other side, the receiver pseudo-variable is just a formal argument:

Instead of

void CardPile::addCard (Card * aCard) {
	...
}

We have

void addCard (CardPile * this, Card * aCard) {
	...
}

The first argument can then be used to access data members and other methods.