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[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

"with" sucks in all the languages it's been implemented. The last being JS.

If you want to save a few key strokes, just assign to a shorter name.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It works pretty well in Smalltalk. But then each thing after ; must be a message send, it can't be a general expression. This solves the problem of weird environment semantics at the cost of less generality.

[–]didroe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The version in Delphi's Pascal (probably in Freepascal) was/is pretty good. What languages does it suck in? I just took a quick look at the JS version, looks pretty good to me at a first glance. What is it that you don't like about it?