From: Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Coding standards proposal, usage of "this"
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:51:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd5758dc-48c6-a66a-d4de-ad726a85ba96@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01BE4175-EDDE-4B84-9FE8-B0C748BE0808@comcast.net>
On 2021-08-13 10:46 a.m., Paul Koning wrote:
> The fact that C++ requires "this" in a few obscure cases is due to messy add-ons like templates. I don't see that as a reason to put "this" everywhere else.
The reason does not have anything to do with templates, it's to help readability.
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-13 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-13 14:26 Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-08-13 14:46 ` Paul Koning via Gdb-patches
2021-08-13 14:51 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches [this message]
2021-08-13 14:47 ` Andrew Burgess
2021-08-15 13:34 ` Lancelot SIX via Gdb-patches
2021-08-16 16:40 ` Christian Biesinger via Gdb-patches
2021-08-16 16:59 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-08-18 11:43 ` Ruslan Kabatsayev via Gdb-patches
2021-08-16 17:06 ` John Baldwin
2021-08-16 17:11 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-08-16 17:23 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-08-16 17:31 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-08-17 10:01 ` Andrew Burgess
2021-08-16 17:28 ` John Baldwin
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