'with' bug?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/2/12 8:03 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
> After reading this:
> http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/04/11/with-statement-considered-harmful/
>
> I thought, does D have the same "problem", and according to:
> http://dlang.org/statement.html#WithStatement
>
> No, it doesn't. D detects local variable shadowing and produces an
> error.

It took quite some fighting to get that implemented. I vaguely recall we 
didn't figure that issue until I tried to explain "with" in TDPL. Or it 
had been already discussed in the forum? Anyhow, it made "with" quite cool.

> But, then I thought does that apply to global variables as well?
> Turns out, no it doesn't.
[snip]
> Should I raise a bug for this?

I personally think we're in good shape here, but an argument could be 
made either way.


Andrei