My problem with implicit this is more, that you can access member variables, without it being explicit, i.e. about the callee, not about the caller. For the fu

My problem with implicit this is more, that you can access member variables, without it being explicit, i.e. about the callee, not about the caller. For the function naming, nothing stops you from doing the same in C: static dosmth (struct * s); s->dosmth = dosmth; That doesn't stop you from mentioning s twice. While it is redundant in the common case, it isn't in every case like I wrote elsewhere. Also this is easily fixable as written several times here, by a macro, or by using the type directly.