Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "express"

[David L. Nicol]

Jeremy Howard wrote:
> 
> This is one of those
> few cases where VB has nicer syntax--within a 'with' block you have to
> precede a property name with '.' to get the with block scope:
> 
>   dim height as double
>   dim ws as new Excel.worksheet  // 'worksheet' has a 'height' property
> 
>   with ws
>     print .height   // Accesses ws.height
>     print height    // Accesses me.height
>   end with
> 
> Whatever syntax we go with to get 'with' type scoping, please let's make
> sure that we can still access the default scope within the block.


Lets use hats again then.

        %ws{
                print ^$height; #prints $ws{height}
                print $height;  # perl5 visibility rules
        };


AFAIK, the entirety of %name{something here} is unplowed ground, as
far as perl syntax goes.


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