'with(Foo):' not allowed, why?

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On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 03:46:05 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 17:03:23 UTC, Timothee Cour via
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> Is there a reason why 'with(Foo):' is not allowed, and we have 
>> to
>> use with(Foo){...} ?
>> It would be more in line with how other scope definitions work 
>> (extern(C)
>> etc)
>
> ping, anyone?

Probably for syntactic reasons: `with` is a statement, while 
`extern(C)`, `@safe`, `private` etc. are attributes.

But the idea is certainly nice, it would only require a simple 
rewriting rule.