Actually the requirement to use self or super in order to access public fields or properties in an inherited class was removed in the compiler as of V2.2 update 2. The support for this in Intellisense within the IDE has not yet been implemented so although the variables do not appear in the Intellisense list without specifying self or super you can still specify them manually.
This refers only to accessing these variables within the compiled body of the class. It does not include support for using them within EXEC SQL statements which are processed by the OpenESQL preprocessor. All host variables specified within EXEC SQL statements must be defined within the current class.
I will have to check with development to see if this type of support is currently planned.
Thanks.