On Thursday, 20 July 2017 at 14:18:48 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Thursday, 20 July 2017 at 14:05:36 UTC, Iakh wrote:
It is not about reduce number of lines. It is about binding
related things in one statement.
Even so, it's already been shown in this thread that the same
effect can be achieved via a block statement (doing exactly
what it was designed for)
This decreases readability by splitting up parts that (the
programmer wants to) semantically belong together.
or with a for loop.
Which is a hack decreasing readability, because it works opposite
to what one generally expects when reading a looping control
structure.
It's an small increase in terseness for a decrease in
readability and an increase in complexity.
W.r.t to the `with` solution only: It's a noticeable increase in
readability for a minor increase in complexity.
