The Sweet With

[Christopher Wright]

Sorry about the name...

Tomasz Sowiński wrote:
> A blunt one would be screaming out an error whenever the compiler has trouble choosing an overload. Would it be too hard to live with?

For programmers? It would be ugly.

For the compiler? It would be ugly, and result in a lot of 
special-casing, I feel. With current with statements, you start a new 
scope and add a bunch of symbols to it. Using this proposed with 
statement syntax, you don't create a new scope, so you have to add a 
step or three to resolving symbols.

Also, you'd have to find all possible overloads of a function and do 
some semantic analysis on them before you could resolve the arguments. 
Overload resolution becomes a lot more difficult.

And what does the programmer gain? Very little. People seldom use enums, 
I think.