The .outer property

[Stewart Gordon]

On 05/03/2011 12:11, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Is this behaviour correct? Should it even be legal to blindly allow access to
> members/fields via the .outer context pointer (that may not even be there as
> shown in this instance)?
>
> class Outer
> {
>      int w = 3;
>      void method()
>      {
>          int x = 4;
>          new class Object
>          {
>              this()
>              {
>                  assert(w == 3);              // Passes
>                  //assert(x == 4);              // Passes
>                  assert(this.outer.w == 3);   // Fails if above is uncommented
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There's clearly a bug at work here.  It seems that there's a clash between two context 
pointers: this and the enclosing function.

The compiler should either distinguish between the two or reject the code.

I'll investigate.

Stewart.