[pwm]

Thanks for this! It's always nice to learn about the origins of things. I was around when they were called "self"/"super", but I never made the connection to OOP.

[rssoconnor]

These slides from Ralf Hinze were instrumental to my understanding of how to use late-binding to define objects in a functional language: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ralf.hinze/talks/Open.pdf