On Thursday, January 10, 2013 09:07:49 deadalnix wrote: > Consider also that this is yet another inconsistency, which is a > bad thing in itself.
What inconsistency? There's no inconsistency here. Is it that you think that the fact that the local variable shadows the member variable is an inconsistency? The _only_ case where variable shadowing is illegal is when one local variable shadows another local variable, and that's because you can't access the shadowed variable when that happens. In all other cases, you can access the shadowed variable (be it through the this pointer/reference or through . or by using the full import path to the variable). So, if anything is inconsistent, it's the fact that shadowing one local variable with another is illegal. It's legal with everything else and quite easy to work around when it happens. Or are you arguing that something else here is an inconsistent? Because I don't see it, and I don't know what else from this thread that you could possibly be referring to. - Jonathan M Davis
