Re: Object Oriented Lua scope?

[David Olofson <david@...>]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 00.41, Deneb aka Alpha Cygnus wrote:
> it would really be nice if one could type something like this:
> x = {}
> with x do
>   a=3
>   b=5
>   c="this is x.c"
> end
>
> print(x.a+x.b) --> 8

I've developed a strong dislike for that construct when doing Delphi 
(Object Pascal) development. Considering that it's just syntactical 
sugar, it's rather expensive, in my experience. Too much risk of 
misreading code, and of writing code that doesn't do what think it 
does. Evil.


//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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