On 06/02/2010 01:42 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> The 'this->' is needed when the current class and base class are both >> templates and the name is declared in the base class, and not if it's >> declared in the current class. That is not likely to happen in a >> hurry while the convention is to not define any templates. > > Right, but it may happen some day. Also there is the issue of > clarity. I think it is clearer to see this->get() rather than get().
gold is using this convention, isn't it? I think there's value in using similar or even identical conventions for both gold and gcc so that people hacking both don't need to learn two different sets. Bernd
