A comment for the \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template::setTemplateContext() method is wrong

dmitrii_fediuk (Dmitrii Fediuk) December 14, 2015, 6:11am 1

https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/2.0.0/lib/internal/Magento/Framework/View/Element/Template.php#L142

The phrase Sets the object that should represent $this in template is wrong.
Should be Sets the object that should represent $block in template.

Magento 2 templates (*.phtml files) get the block instance as $block variable, not $this

https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/2785

The block instance is passed to the «*.phtml» templates as $block variable, not $this