"this me"?

[Geoff Canyon]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Jim-
>
> Wednesday, August 7, 2013, 8:33:26 PM, you wrote:
>
> > How about the effective me?
>
> After my initial shock, I'm thinking that this is kind of not too bad.
> It's a weird use of "effective", but you could see if you're in the
> context of a behavior object by checking
>
> if me is not the effective me then...
>
> but personally I prefer "myself", if that's not too narcissistic or
> self-referential or something...
>
> if me is not myself then...
>


"effective" modifies a property to get the value whether it is set
directly, or inherited. "me" always has a meaning, and is never inherited.
Putting it another way, "effective" does not mean "inherited"