What happened to the alias this = identifier syntax in 2.062?

Michael pr at m1xa.com
Fri Feb 22 13:39:18 PST 2013


> There is no justification for this.
>
> I guess the main issue is that alias blah this; shouldn't have 
> made it into the grammar in the first place. But this was 
> obviously done in order to establish a broken analogy to the 
> other uses of alias. Either alias this=blah; must be kept or 
> the alias this syntax should be deprecated in favour of a 
> specially named member function.

+1


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