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Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> ---
I remember having seen this syntax before, but do you have a link to it being mentioned in the language spec? I have found postblit only, but that does not come with an identifier.

I guess you are using DParser as the semantic engine (though probably the other engine doesn't accept it, too).

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hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx changed:

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--- Comment #2 from hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx ---
Shouldn't that be:

this(typeof(this) other) { ... }

? Is this a case of accepts-invalid?

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--- Comment #3 from Benjamin Thaut <code@benjamin-thaut.de> ---
I did actually read about this syntax on the newsgroup. I don't remember where, but after I read about it I tried it out and it works flawlessly. And it is so much shorter to write and looks a lot nicer in then "typeof(this)". I don't think this is a accepts invalid, because according to the newsgroup this is by design, although I don't know if it is mentioned in the spec.

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--- Comment #4 from Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> ---
I also think this is a misfeature. Some experiments show that is very inconsistent: the following code compiles, commented lines throw an error.

class Foo
{
    this(this that, super base)
    {
        // this other = that;
        // static shared(super) s;
    }
    void member(this that)
    {
    }
    super base;
    // this next;
    shared(this) that;
    static shared(super) sup;
}

Similar stuff works for structs an "this", "super" is an undefined identifier.

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--- Comment #5 from Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> ---
related: issue 12228, also specifying the introducing commit.

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Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> ---
>   this(this other)

Issue 18228 has been fixed, deprecating this syntax - closing this. Outside a parameter list, Rainer's issue is still open.

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Mike Franklin <slavo5150@yahoo.com> changed:

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