Verbosity of `this` about arua-meta HOT 5 OPEN

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I think this could be handy... Would be easier to parse a single token @ rather than this as a string literal.
I haven't used CoffeeScript but I have seen it, so yeah, the usage of using a @ could be quite [as you put it] succinct.

Now a question on the actual syntax of using @ rather than this, would it be used (in Arua) like this:

@.foo
@.bar

or more around the lines of

@foo # C++ equivalent: this.foo
@bar # C++ equivalent: this.bar

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@PolyGN the second.

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@Qix- perfect! That now makes it even faster for the compiler rather than having the period, less text.

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But also less readable, I think.

If you're curious, all of the code I'm writing to test the lexer/parser is being pasted into a word document with no syntax highlighting - usually only done for things I'm not sure about (in terms of readability or maintainability). If it's not immediately obvious what it's doing, or if it requires a bunch of second looks, I am killing it.

This was the first thing I noticed. Look at it without syntax highlighting:

use math.*

on Foo be Bar
    fn something(foo i32, bar i32, qux f32) f32
        ret sin(bar as i32) * (6 * foo + @foo * bar * cos(foo as i32 * @qux) + qux) * 2

versus

use math.*

on Foo be Bar
    fn something(foo i32, bar i32, qux f32) f32
        ret sin(bar as i32) * (6 * foo + this.foo * bar * cos(foo as i32 * this.qux) + qux) * 2

I'm not sure which is more readable, but with syntax highlighting there's no mistake - this is much more readable since it'll be treated as a keyword.

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