Does using 'this.' make _any_ difference to method calls?

Question

If I'm calling a local method, for example:
this.doStuff();is it functionally ever under any circumstances whatsoever different to simply doing:
doStuff();I have quite a vivid memory from a few years ago of a reasonably complex class hierarchy in which I found there to be different behaviour when specifying 'this.' to not specifying it. Was this some sort of hallucination?
See this has caused me to be paranoid about using 'this.' everywhere I call a local method. Someone asked me why I did it and explained with the story above. However I can't for the life of me re-create the situation.
Edited by: pete-woods on May 2, 2008 3:51 AM

Answer 1

There's no difference between calling this.methodName() and calling methodName() directly. as others said, just for clarity.
however, the only time i almost always use "this" is when passing a constructor args that have the same name as the instance variables in that class in which case i use "this" to avoid naming confusion.
example:
public MyConstructor(int x, int y){
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
above the this.x is the instance variable and the single x by itself is the arg.