Bernd Schmidt <ber...@codesourcery.com> writes: > 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.
gold does use that convention, as does the gccgo frontend, but I am not advocating importing the gold style wholesale into gcc. Ian
