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Hello people!
I would like to hear the opinions on the following problem:
whether it is possible/worthwhile to introduce the analog of Pascal 'with'
statement into C++ ? has someone proposed/considered it?
(IMHO, it is the only one nice Pascal feature (now that bitsets are (soon)
available) amiss from C++. For those not familiar with the topic, here is a
brief (and possibly not quite exact) explanation:
Suppose you have the following declarations:
  type tpair = object
         m,n: integer;
         end;
  var  pairs : array[1..10] of tpair;
then you can write, for instance:
  for i = 1 to 10 do
    with pairs[i] do
      m = n;
instead of
  for i = 1 to 10
    pairs[i].m = pairs[i].n;
I think the first version is clearer and probably more easily optimizable
than the second.
As far as I understand, in C++ I can achieve roughly the same goals for
static class members by including the 'using namespace tpair;' directive,
while for non-statics it is not possible (there is no way to indicate the
object which should be used).

         Best regards                      Genie

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