Subj : Re: "deprecated with statement usage"
To   : Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@t-online.de>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Tue Oct 14 2003 11:56 am

Martin Honnen wrote:

> Adrian Herscu wrote:
>
>> Brendan Eich wrote:
>>
>>> Adrian Herscu wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is the story behind this warning:
>>>> "deprecated with statement usage"?
>>>
>>> It's a strict warning you asked for (off by default), telling you to 
>>> stop using the deprecated with statement.
>>
>> Why it is deprecated?
>> Is it safe to use it?
>> Does it have any hidden (or hardly to anticipate) behaviors?
>> It will be supported by next versions of ECMAScript262?
>
> ECMAScript edition 3 doesn't deprecate the with statement. And the 
> proposal for ECMAScript edition 4 also lists a with statement 
> http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/es4/core/statements.html#N-WithStatement

That's nice, but we still deprecate with, in the hope of obsoleting it 
some day, for the reasons Igor gave.

/be

.