Given a struct

struct Foo{
  enum INT_C {Yes, No}
  INT_C a;
}

-- we wish to make a constructor. We want to set the answer to Yes if we construct the struct with an integer. There are some stylistic choices to be made.

The first choice is: do we use this (I seem to recall being told in Java with classes there is debate whether 'this' is preferrable or not).

this(int y)
{
  //choice 1:
  this.a = this.INT_C.Yes;
  //choice 2:
  a = INT_C.Yes;
}

The second choice is: do we qualify by the struct name:

this(int y)
{
  //option 1
  a = Foo.INT_C.Yes;
  //option 2
  a = INT_C.Yes;
}

The reason I ask, is that I remember some cases in Java where it was advantageous to use 'this'.

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