braceless with statements

[Dr Machine Code]

On Friday, 12 November 2021 at 10:55:21 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> Good Morning Everyone,
>
> I recently found myself wanting to introduce a bunch of member 
> variables into the scope of the function I was currently 
> working on.
> Of course D has a nice way to do that; The `with` statement.
>
> so
> ```D
> struct S { int x; }
> int fn()
> {
>     S s;
>     with(s)
>     {
>        x = 12;
>        return x;
>     }
> }
> ```
>
> this code works but it forces another level of indentation 
> which makes it a little ugly.
>
> So I did a small patch to my local version of dmd.

Do you use your own compiler version? do use it for anything but 
toy projects?

> And now this works:
> ```D
> struct S { int x; }
> int fn()
> {
>     S s;
>     with(s):
>     x = 12;
>     return x;
> }
> ```
>
> It is a really simple patch and I think it's worthwhile to have 
> this in the main language.

it's lowered to the very same code in your first example, right? 
tbh honest I like it, wouldn't mind that in the main language. I 
think this one of the syntax sugar examples that didn't make it 
hard and/or ugly to read