On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:47:59PM +0200, bearophile wrote:
> H. S. Teoh:
>
> >When you have nested with's.
> >
> >Or when the object members shadow local variables in the parent
> >scope.
> >
> > struct S {
> > int x;
> > }
> >
> > void main() {
> > int x, y;
> > S s;
> >
> > with(s) {
> > x = 1;
> > y = 2;
> > }
> > }
>
> That code doesn't compile:
>
> test.d(10): Error: with symbol test.S.x is shadowing local symbol
> test.main.x
[...]
Which means your code is at the mercy of the external library. Upstream
updates a class, and suddenly a whole bunch of code is unnecessarily
broken (if you had just used aliases instead, there would be no
problem).
T
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