On Sunday, 24 November 2013 at 14:32:16 UTC, ilya-stromberg wrote:
On Sunday, 24 November 2013 at 14:16:39 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Maxim Fomin:
This is neither bug not a terribale feature.
I think the implicit question of ilya-stromberg was: how much
bug-prone is this language feature?
Yes, exactly. I personally was VERY surprised. My code example
from real life:
class Foo
{
}
class Bar
{
Foo f;
void bar()
{
//variable was wrongly commented here
//bool f = true;
if(f)
{
//Oops!
}
}
}
This is identifiers shadowing issue. In best case you could not
define boolean f, so the problem would not arise in a first
place. Anyway, many artifical examples can be provided which
shows that some features behave in unexpected ways which is not a
reason that they are bad.
