Does anyone use 'with' statement?

[janderson]

serg kovrov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I have studied a (proprietary language) code. The language 
> features 'with' statement in the same sense that D does. To understand 
> what this code sample really do I had to remove all 'with's and 
> fix/compile code many times before it start working as original.
> 
> I don't know why never tried to use it in my own code before, but now I 
> definitely will NOT use it ever. Even if it could save me some typing. I 
> found 'with' far more evil than even 'goto' (which I don't use as well).
> 
> -- serg.

I find the with statement useful in the same sense as auto for generic 
programming.  Name clashes can be a problem however there are always 
trade offs in programming.