On Sunday, 24 November 2013 at 18:23:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Shadowing globals is definitely a bad idea. Shadowing members,
it's debatable. In any case, I don't think it is some sort of
terrible bug generator. In fact, I'll often write:
struct S {
int m;
this(int m) { this.m = m; }
}
We can allow shadowing members only for function parameters or,
maybe, only for constructor. Probably, your example is the most
often case usage of shadowing members. In other hand, I can
always rename local function variable because it isn't part of
public API and should not confuse any users.
