More on "with" statement

[Erik Max Francis]

Roman Suzi wrote:

> Programmers must be lazy to some degree. So, they tend to write
> 
> a*(b+c+d+e)
> 
> instead of
> 
> a*b+a*c+a*d+a*e

That's just plain more efficient.  Four additions and one multiply
instead of three additions and four multiplies.

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