about "with statement"
mike james
foo at bar.com
Sun Jun 9 04:16:17 PDT 2013
On Sunday, 9 June 2013 at 10:22:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, June 09, 2013 12:11:23 khurshid wrote:
>> D language have like Pascal/Delphi "with statement", which
>> very
>> useful for writing readable code.
>>
>> http://dlang.org/statement.html#WithStatement
>>
>> Maybe I'm wrong, but, I never saw where using this statement
>> in
>> phobos source codes, what problem using this statement?
>
> I'm not aware of any problems with it, but there's also rarely
> any reason to
> use it. In most cases, it doesn't really add anything to the
> code, and I'd
> argue that it would make code harder to read, because it hides
> where the
> variables are coming from. I don't think that we'd really lose
> anything if we
> didn't have it, but it's there if you want to use it, and it's
> not going away.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
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