static with?

[JR]

On Sunday, 15 December 2013 at 02:03:09 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> I think I'd like with() to not create a scope, just like the 
> "static if". So you could write this code:
> [...]

And/or with the same syntax as <attribute>: (saving some 
indentation, but perhaps less idiomatic?). Granted it doesn't 
allow for top-level definitions, and it *really* would highlight 
the need for a way to end the attribue scope.

enum Foo { A, B }

void main() {
     import std.stdio;
     with (Foo):
     immutable data = [A, B];
     // ~with (Foo) ? pretty pretty please, would help so very 
much elsewhere
     data.writeln();
}

In my code I usually locally alias the enum to a single letter 
and use it as a shorthand identifier. But it's ugly.

enum DescriptiveEnumNameBecauseReasons { A, B }

void main() {
     import std.stdio;
     alias d = DescriptiveEnumNameBecauseReasons;
     immutable data = [d.A, d.B];
     data.writeln();
}