Redundancies often reveal bugs

[Simen kjaeraas]

bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:

> but it can't avoid bugs like the following inc(), so I think it's not  
> enough to solve the problems I was talking about:
>
>
> // Code #5
> class Foo {
>     int x;
>     void inc(int x) { x += x; }
> }
> void main() {}

Oh, but it can (sort of). By allowing this syntax, there is *very* little
reason to allow for shadowing of members by parameters or local variables,
and those may thus more readily be disallowed.

-- 
Simen