"with" should be deprecated with extreme prejudice

[BCS]

Hello Andrei,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Hello Andrei,
>> 
>>> BCS wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello Andrei,
>>>> 
>>>>> dsimcha wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Absolutely not.  It's far too useful as syntactic sugar when
>>>>>> working heavily with plain old data structs, and saves a lot of
>>>>>> tedious repetition of the struct instance name.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Make it a member function! If you don't have access to the struct,
>>>>> use "s." as the prefix! I can't believe that's stopping you from
>>>>> getting work done!
>>>>> 
>>>> I don't follow.
>>>> 
>>> "s." is hardly any typing.
>>> 
>> wrong bit, I should have cut more:
>> 
>>> Make it a member function!
>>> 
>> ?
>> 
> In a member function there's no need to prefix each member.
> 
> Andrei
> 


how does that heplp you when you either don't have access to the type or 
don't want to add the code using the type to it


module somelib;

struct S
{
    int x, y, z;
}


module someapp;
import somelib;

void fn(char[] str, S s)
{
    with(s)
    {
         sscanf(str.ptr, "<%i, %i, %i>", &x, &z, &y); // I'm not adding this 
to S
    }
}