Re: Pascal-like 'with' statement feasible in C++?

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From: Shankar Unni
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 18:43

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Kevin Lentin (kevinl@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au) wrote:

> With is purely a piece of syntactical sugar (with some ugly type problems
> described elsewhere in this thread). It provides a way of making your life
> easier (or different). Not the compiler.

It is an evil piece of syntactic sugar. Wait till these "with"'s start
getting nested, and have giant, 500+-line blocks inside them. Reading the
resultant code is a *nightmare*.
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