Preparing for the 0.2 draft

[Neal Gafter]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mark Thornton <mthornton at optrak.co.uk> wrote:
> Joshua Bloch wrote:
>> True, but I haven't heard *any *arguments in favor of the "transparent this"
>> that are in any way applicable to Java. Maybe I'm being dense, but I believe
>> it's cargo cult language design.  In Java, I believe it would be a
>> gratuitous inconsistency, pure and simple.  And I believe it would bite us
>> sooner rather than later.  If I'm wrong, I'd love to see some compelling,
>> practical examples where having this refer to the enclosing instance is
>> useful (in Java).
>>
>>
> A decision could be delayed by not allowing an unqualified "this" at all
> (the qualified form is unambiguous so could remain).

And also not allowing the use of unqualified "toString" etc?