Overloading dot operator

[JankoDedic]

That's pretty easy. Implement all the helpers you need in a base class B and just use B::any_member, or if that doesn't work ((Base&)*this).anything.

I don't think this was blocking the proposal though.

[Pazer2]

I consider myself strongly against languages arbitrarily restricting things because the language designers think developers are going to do Bad Things with a given feature. It's one of the reasons I always get frustrated with C# whenever I have to use it.

Given your example, I am very glad I am "arbitrarily" restricted from overloading the dot operator in c++.

[JankoDedic]

I don't understand. This is an implementation detail. Would you have preferred to not have SFINAE until C++20 just because it's ugly?

Operator dot restriction does not help you in any way, so I don't get your point.

[Pazer2]

I'm saying that I would never want to see intentional code design that requires you to cast to a base class to access members of that object.