Does anyone use 'with' statement?

[Robert Fraser]

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 agree the explicit way is more readable, but I don't have strong 
feelings against the with statement if the object it's with is 
referenced in every statement in the block.

Goto, used correctly, increase readability, IMO. Having ported some C++ 
code that used quite a bit of goto over to Java, and the temporary 
boolean variables used seem less readable to me and often force code to 
split up into many places.