16 Aug
2009
16 Aug
'09
1:06 a.m.
Prozacgod wrote:
After this discussion I'm wondering why it ever ended up in any language to begin with?
Pascal has it because it doesn't have any general way of binding a local name to some nested part of a data structure. You can always do this in Python, and also in C using the & operator, so those languages don't need a Pascal-style with-statement. -- Greg