"with" should be deprecated with extreme prejudice

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Rainer Deyke" <rainerd at eldwood.com> wrote in message 
news:guqno8$2fci$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> In a member function there's no need to prefix each member.
>
> There isn't, but there should be.  IMO.
> 'with' should be banned.
> Implicit access to members of 'this' should also be banned.  I always
> use explicit 'this->' in C++ and explicit 'this.' in D.  It makes the
> code much easier to read.
>

This is what I love about Ruby's member access. It's just like you suggest, 
but with "@" prepended instead of "this." which IMO is much too clunky to 
require for something as common as accessing a member of the current 
instance. But other than that little quibble I love the idea.