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

[Michael Schnell]

On 08/04/2011 08:10 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
>
> The code that calculates the indices and handles other references 
> could have side effects, so the compiler would not be able to optimize 
> them. If you use this code once inside the "with"-clause you tell the 
> compiler to do that calculation only once and that you are aware of 
> possible side effects (or thus not occuring side effects).
>
OK, with C a possible compiler-generated the hidden pointer variable is 
as "non-volatile" as an explicit variable without a "volatile" spec 
would be, while in Pascal virtually everything is considered volatile. 
this in fact might ask for side-effects.

-Michael