.. an extension of certain compilers, and straight illegal in other
compilers.

The only standard-compliant of doing something similar is with the
following:

class vec3
{
    float my_vec[3];
public:
    [[nodiscard]] constexpr float& x(){
        return my_vec[0];
    }

    [[nodiscard]] constexpr float& y(){
        return my_vec[1];
    }

.....
};

But i see this approach less than ideal (writing () per member access might
be a little tough). Hence, i propose the following syntax:

class vec3
{
    float my_vec[3];
public:
    using x = my_vec[0];
    using y = my_vec[1];
    ....
};

which would serve as a referencing mechanism to the specified elements of
the array, similar to the previous method.

El jue, 7 mar 2024 a las 22:54, veronica alphonso (<verodeving_at_[hidden]>)
escribió:

> In C++ there isn't a standard-compliant way of creating named aliases of
> c-like array elements. In certain contexts, it is preferred to access these
> these array elements with a named identifier that is bounded to that
> particular array entry, e.g:
>
> union
> {
> float my_vec[3];
> struct
> {
> float x, y, z;
> };
> };
>
> However, anonymous structs/classes are only
>