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296: Mainline

As you learned in Segment 198, in any instance method, this can be viewed as a special parameter, not listed with the other parameters, whose value is the instance method's target. Thus, a constructor-calling expression—such as this(s, a, d)—can be viewed as a method call with a target but no name; that call, by convention, means a call to a constructor.