khurshid:
D language have like Pascal/Delphi "with statement", which
very useful for writing readable code.
It's a quite useful statement, especially with enumerations or
associative array literals, to avoid repeating many times their
name:
switch (en) with (MyEnum) {
case foo: ...
case bar: ...
}
int[MyEnum] myAA;
with (MyEnum) {
myAA = [foo: ...,
bar: ...,
];
}
Instead of:
switch (en) {
case MyEnum.foo: ...
case MyEnum.bar: ...
}
int[MyEnum] myAA = [
MyEnum.foo: ...,
MyEnum.bar: ...,
];
And D with is better than Pascal one, because it removes its main
pitfall.
Maybe I'm wrong, but, I never saw where using this statement
in phobos source codes, what problem using this statement?
I think it's not used much in Phobos because it's a statement not
present in C/C++, and D/Phobos devs are more used to C/C++
languages than to Pascal/Ada ones.
Bye,
bearophile
