Constructor Parameter vs Member Variable

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On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 at 16:30:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 7:23:26 AM MST Christopher Winter 
> via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>
> A big difference is that if you shadow a local variable with 
> another local variable, you don't have any way to differentiate 
> between them. So, when you shadow a local variable, that 
> variable becomes inaccessible within that section of code, 
> whereas with a member variable, you can distinguish with the 
> this reference, and with a variable at module scope, you can 
> differentiate a leading dot. So, the error prevents you from 
> making variables inaccessible, whereas there is no need for 
> such an error when shadowing non-local variables.
>
> [...]

a better option would be to force the use of this. to access 
member variables instead of implicitly making them part of the 
scope. but that ship has sailed a long time ago