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
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