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In article <MATT.95Sep14102849@physics10.Berkeley.EDU>, "Eugene Radchenko" <eugene@qsar.chem.msu.su> says:
>whether it is possible/worthwhile to introduce the analog of Pascal 'with'
>statement into C++ ? has someone proposed/considered it?

>  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;

You can use a reference in a block to get the same effect:

for (i=1;i<11;i++)
{pairs-element-type &X = pairs[i];
 X.m = X.n;
}

This uses features already in C++ and does not depend on an
implicit qualification by 'pairs[i].'.


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