Please improve the with statement by allowing initialisation

Nick Treleaven nick at geany.org
Fri Mar 14 15:11:06 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);
> }
> ```

Just to mention that there's an issue filed for this (in 2014 and 
duplicate in 2015):
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/18890


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