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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ 2.0 Question -- Whats wrong with this code ??
Summary: Clarification: you can do without 'this' entirely...
Message-ID: <1153@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 12:30:59 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <1152@aber-cs.UUCP> I have just written:

    I have been thinking also that if 'this' were made a reference,
    then it would be possible to dispense with the concept of member
    procedure entirely; any 'friend' of a class with a first parameter
    of type reference to that class could be invoked indifferently as

		a_friend(obj,arg1,arg2)

    or

		obj.a_friend(arg1,arg)

I forgot to observe that obviously this would eliminate not just the need
for the concept of member procedure, but also the idea of having 'this' at
all as a distinguished entity, which is even better, given its somewhat
peculiar nature.
-- 
Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi           | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth        | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg
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