Please improve the with statement by allowing initialisation
Paul Backus
snarwin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 15:13:19 UTC 2025
On Wednesday, 12 March 2025 at 19:01:46 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 March 2025 at 18:55:45 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> the with block. Since with statement does not allow
>> initialisation one would try:
>
> As usual, I forgot to give an example of what I am actually
> asking for...
>
> ```d
> auto app = new Application();
> with (auto win = new Window) { // currently not allowed
> setTitle("Example");
> setDefaultSize(200, 200);
> setChild(mainBox);
> app.addWindow(win);
> }
> ```
Seems like a totally uncontroversial change to me. We already
allow using a declaration in `if`, `while`, and `switch`
statements; there's no reason `with` shouldn't work the same way.
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