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Bug 342108

Summary:	[Xtend] [Compiler] Remove private _this field
Product:	[Modeling] TMF	Reporter:	Sven Efftinge <sven.efftinge>
Component:	Xtext	Assignee:	Project Inbox <tmf.xtext-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	Flags:	sven.efftinge: indigo+
Version:	2.0.0
Target Milestone:	M7
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Sven Efftinge

2011-04-07 03:51:54 EDT

Currently the compiler generates a private field pointing to _this in order to point to that this also from within closures. We can instead generate "ClassName.this" when referencing 'this' and can remove the local variable.

Note, that this applies for 'super' as well.

To enhance the generated code we could check whether we are in a closure and only then use the qualified name to 'this'.

Comment 1 Sven Efftinge

2011-04-07 04:28:22 EDT

pushed to master.

(In reply to comment #0)
> To enhance the generated code we could check whether we are in a closure and
> only then use the qualified name to 'this'.

Considered unimportant, since Bug 342116 will make use of 'this' (bound to XtendClass) very rare.

Comment 2 Sven Efftinge

2011-04-07 10:55:18 EDT

Because the solution of Bug 342116 isn't improving the situation the compiler now uses the short 'this' and 'super' if possible.

Comment 3 Karsten Thoms

2017-09-19 17:09:54 EDT

Closing all bugs that were set to RESOLVED before Neon.0

Comment 4 Karsten Thoms

2017-09-19 17:21:42 EDT

Closing all bugs that were set to RESOLVED before Neon.0