Terminology: qualified member access expression #1142
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zygoloid
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Mar 17, 2022
| the member. | ||
| resolved in the containing scope. A compound member access where the member | ||
| expression is a simple member access expression, as in `a.(context.b)`, is | ||
| called a _qualified member access expression_. The member expression `context.b` |
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Do you think it'd be useful to define this more centrally (perhaps in docs/design/expressions/member_access.md) rather than in generics terminology? I think we'd expect most uses of this functionality to be generics-related, but this syntax would probably also be useful for example when accessing a shadowed member from a base class.
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I'm fine either way. My inclination is to wait until we have another use case, since I don't think we have decided whether a derived class can shadow members of its base.
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This is a follow up to #1138 , and in particular this review comment.