Jonathan M Davis:
Agreed. This would just add more stuff to the language that
people would have to understand,
Now there are languages with such idea, like TypeScript and
Scala, so I think programmers can grasp this simple idea quickly.
and it really doesn't add much benefit. It's just a slightly
terser syntax -
It's a more dry syntax, it saves typing, reduces the noise, and
makes the code less bug-prone because it's more DRY, you have to
repeat similar things less times. So I think it's a good idea for
D.
It also partially replaces my idea of giving a warning/error when
you have arguments equal to field names, because it removes a
source for a common bug (this code compiles with no errors nor
warnings and shows a different but related bug):
struct Foo {
int x;
this(in int x_) {
x = x;
}
}
void main() {}
Bye,
bearophile
