From: Chris Morris <home@...>
Date: 2002-06-06T10:17:51+09:00
Subject: RE: Pascal-like 'with' statement?

> That's something I would LOVE to see added.

FWIW, many Delphi programmers discourage the use of with -- although that
may be in part to limitations of previous versions of the debugger (with
Delphi 5, you can mouse over a variable and get a pop-up watch, but not on
variables that resolve to the obj of the with block). Another reason is that
it can make the code less readable:

- if the block under the with is too long
- if multiple items are used in the with block, it can be confusing which
one is being referenced

// this is legal
with AObj, BObj do
begin
  MemberA := 'x';
  MemberB := 'c';
end;

... does MemberB belong to BObj, does MemberA belong to AObj? There's no way
to know just by looking at this block.

Chris