RS>   What is the scoop with this?  
The keyword `this' ?
 RS> BC++ 3.1 tells me it's obsolete.  Is that correct?
Assignment to `this' in a constructor is obsolete, yes.  In early versions of 
the C++ language, *very* early versions, operators new and delete did not 
exist for individual classes, and so overriding the default memory allocator 
for a particular class was done by assigning to `this' in the middle of a 
constructor.  However, this mechanism was clumsy and difficult, and has long 
since been replaced by class-specific new and delete operators.  
Modern C++ implementations, and implementations of *Standard* C++, give 
`this' the type `T * const', where `T' is the class, as a consequence of 
which it cannot be assigned to.
The keyword `this' is, in itself, *not* obsolete, however.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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