the annoying, verbose self

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:12:34 +0100, Ton van Vliet wrote:

> Just bringing up something I sometimes miss from good-old Turbo-Pascal
> here, which has the WITH statement to reduce the typing overhead with
> (long) record/struct prefixes, used like:
> 
> with <prefix> do begin
>     a = ...
>     b = ...
> end;
> 
> where all variables would be automatically prefixed with the <prefix>
> (if present in the already available record definition!)

And here lies the problem:  The compiler decides at compile time which
names are local to a function and there is no equivalent of a record
definition to make that decision.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch