(atsign tag)
  tag: a sym

Accesses a method's self-object.

(atsign sym) is usually abbreviated as @sym.

atsign is only meaningful within the body or parameter list of a method, or the initializer form of a field, constant or property.

In all of those contexts, there is a hidden local variable which represents the "self object" - that is, the object which is receiving the method call, or the object which contains the field, or the class which contains the constant, etc. @ can be used to access that hidden local variable.

The local variable can be captured by a closure, so fn will work as expected.

There are various symbols which have special meaning when passed to @, such as @base or @self.

Otherwise, for an arbitrary symbol name, @name has one of the following meanings:

• @name is equivalent to [@self 'name]. It accesses a field or property on the self-object.

• (? @name) is equivalent to [@self (? 'name)]. It accesses a field or property on the self-object which may be absent.

• (@name arg0) is equivalent to (.name @self arg0). It invokes a method on the self-object.

• ((? @name) arg0) is equivalent to ((? .name) @self arg0). It invokes a method on the self-object which may be absent.

In a method parameter list, when a parameter's name is prefixed with @, that method will prefix its body with (= @name name), assigning the value of that parameter to the corresponding field or property.