Re: what's with 'with'? (was: [aliasing - was:[nice2haveit]])

[Mark Koopman]

Garrett Goebel wrote:

> From: Stuart Rocks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
>>Both the following would work:
>>
>>with($foo){
>>   print "I am not a $foo\n";
>>  # or:
>>   print "I am not a ";
>>   print;
>>}
>>
> 
> Okay... I've been mostly ignoring this thread. But can someone reiterate the
> difference between the above and
> 
> for($foo){
>    print "I am not a $foo\n";
>   # or:
>    print "I am not a ";
>    print;
> }
> 
> ???
> 
> 


pure syntax.  does anyone else question making aliases like 'with' from 'for'?
a 'with' alias could open the door on purely confusing code like this:

with( my $i; $i < 10; $i++ ){  ... }

instead of having an standard 'with' that only works on objects like this:

with( MyObject->new() ) {
  .setIt("blah");
  ...
}





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