On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Friesen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I honestly consider the outright statements against with to be
> overboard.
It's a pedantic discussion around best practices--within that context
the statements don't sound overboard but I can understand how they can
easily start to sound overboard when one considers the naive
use-cases.
> I've been using the with statement quite reliably inside my
> code at work. I think the issue is misuse of with. One shouldn't go
> using with in the intent to do `with(foo) {bar = 'baz';}` and have
> foo.bar modified.
With power comes responsibility. It is fair to say you are a
responsible user of the 'with' functionality. However, you assume that
every developer who touches your code has read and understood the
implications of using 'with'. For individuals it might be OK, but for
open sourced projects or organizations it makes sense to adopt best
practices that pose minimal risk. It's the reason why developers ought
to use ("mystring"==myvar) instead of (myvar=="mystring").
Not using 'with' is a very prudent practise.
-- Aleem
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