Editions Ideas

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Monday, 15 December 2025 at 12:26:04 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 December 2025 at 21:25:29 UTC, Sadiel wrote:
>> - alias this
>
> For classes, maybe it would be sufficient to:
> 1. Forbid alias this from producing anything that implicitly 
> converts to Object.
> 2. Forbid alias this if a superclass has already defined it.
>
> For structs, I think there was some plan to replace it, but I 
> never saw details.

Walter has indicated a desire to not use editions as an excuse to 
ruin the language.

alias this with structs is very useful. There is no reason to 
remove it or make it unusable just because a few people think it 
can be dangerous. One might also argue that pointers are 
dangerous, but that's not an argument for removing them. Removal 
of alias this would make the language unusable for me.