Any doubts that I may have once harbored about my eligibility for this list were dispelled this morning. I no longer recall what a colleague and I were discussing when one of us mused aloud, "Hmm.. Is this true?" I found myself thinking: Why, of _course_ "this" is true! "this" is an implicit pointer to the current object. If it is in scope, it must be non-zero and therefore evaluate to "TRUE"...