RFR: 8204610: Compiler confused by parenthesized "this" in final fields assignments

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 11/06/18 20:56, Liam Miller-Cushon wrote:
> Where does qualified 'this' fit in here (e.g. `TypeName.this.x = 1`)? 
> Should it be handled similarly?
My 0.02$ is that they should be handles similarly.
>
> Related: JDK-8193904
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:43 PM Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com 
> <mailto:alex.buckley at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     A finger-in-the-air guess the impact of this source-incompatible
>     change:
>     1/4 the impact of banning `_` as a variable name.
>
>
> I'd be happy to help measure the impact of that change once there's a 
> prototype.
Cool - I can cook up a patch for you to try out

Thanks
Maurizio

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