struct Circle {
   float r;
  // spot the new keyword "self"
  // concise but prone to abuse?
   float area() const noexcept {
     self {
       return pi*r*r;
     }
   }
};

On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 22:28, Gašper Ažman <gasper.azman_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Has been suggested and rejected. Free identifiers after the parameter list
> eat up too much syntax.
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021, 20:53 DBJ <dbj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Ok there is a completely different approach but perhaps a clean solution :
>>
>> struct Circle {
>> float r;
>> // spot the new specifier "self"
>> float area() self const noexcept { return pi*r*r; } // concise
>> };
>>
>> It might be no further explanation is needed; at least on this forum,
>> one might hope.
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 17:32, Gašper Ažman via Std-Proposals <
>> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> It has been discussed and rejected *for now*, but the design space
>>> there has been left open.
>>>
>>> There's nothing preventing us from doing something like that in a future
>>> version of C++.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 4:30 PM Phil Endecott <
>>> std_proposals_list_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gašper Ažman wrote:
>>>> > The committee actually did look at the (F this) syntax and it took a
>>>> long
>>>> > time to convince them that it's a bad idea.
>>>>
>>>> It's the lack of plain access to members without having
>>>> to write this-> or this. or self. that I regret losing.
>>>> I.e. I don't want to be able to write "this.foo" in
>>>> preference to "self.foo" in such a method, I want to be
>>>> able to just write "foo".
>>>>
>>>> I have sometimes wondered whether it would he helpful to
>>>> provide syntax to bring arbitrary objects' members into
>>>> scope. Without this, free functions are inherently more
>>>> verbose than methods. I think that Pascal and/or Modula-2
>>>> had a "with" statement that allowed this. Example:
>>>>
>>>> struct Circle {
>>>> float r;
>>>> float area() const { return pi*r*r; } // concise
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> float area(const Circle& circle)
>>>> {
>>>> return pi*circle.r*circle.r; // verbose
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> float area(const Circle& circle)
>>>> {
>>>> with circle {
>>>> return pi*r*r; // concise
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> You'll probably tell me this was considered and rejected years ago...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Phil.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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