Syntax addition: with ... do

[Daniel Herkert <mikael_hell@...>]

I just found lua and tough I´m lovin it, something is
still missing. I find myself writin lots of code
similar to

object.name=object.parent.name..object.name

Theres a quite a load of repeating 'object' there..
Could there be a new command introduced to handle
this:

with object do
   name=parent.name..name
   end

This would clean up code a lot and make it more
readable imho.
As i understand similar behaviour could already be
done with setting the enviroment as 'object', but with
the downside of losing all the global functions etc.

I dont know if the idea im introducing has been
discussed or if theres a smarter way, but do you have
any toughts about this idea?


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