Re: 'with(Foo):' not allowed, why?

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On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 09:11:53 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:

On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 03:46:05 UTC, timotheecour wrote:

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 17:03:23 UTC, Timothee Cour via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:

Is there a reason why 'with(Foo):' is not allowed, and we have to

use with(Foo){...} ?

It would be more in line with how other scope definitions work (extern(C)

etc)

ping, anyone?

Probably for syntactic reasons: `with` is a statement, while `extern(C)`, `@safe`, `private` etc. are attributes.

But the idea is certainly nice, it would only require a simple rewriting rule.

Also a way to cancel such...

  struct Foo {
  @nogc:

    void bar() {
      with (someEnum):
      // ...
      !:with (someEnum)  // ?
      // ...
    }

  !:@nogc  // ?

    void gcFunction() { /*...*/ }
  }