[Lazarus] 'with' is evil, isn't it?

[Marcos Douglas]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
<DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
> Marcos Douglas schrieb:
>
>> IMHO, 'with' should have an implicit pointer like 'self' (could be
>> 'this' or whatever).
>
> This<g> will fail with nested With's, or a With with multiple expressions.
>
> A nicer syntax would require only an "." for your "this.".
>
>> Eg:
>>
>> procedure TControlDescendant.Paint;
>> begin
>>  with Canvas do
>>  begin
>>      this.Rectangle(0, 0, this.Width, this.Height);
>
>        .Rectangle(0,0, .Width, .Height);
>>
>>  end;
     end;

OK, could be... but not prevents confusion of properties.


On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> One I've floated elsewhere is to allow  with  to define an alias with the
> same notation as a constant:
>
>  with tsm= TSming(caller^) do begin
>    while tsm.Count <= writePos do
>      tsm.Append('');

I like it, but FPC's team doesn't will, I think...
Alias already was proposed even to Units but did not approved.

Marcos Douglas