Subj : Re: "deprecated with statement usage"
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Igor Bukanov <igor@fastmail.fm>
Date : Thu Oct 16 2003 04:14 pm

I am curious, why in 1995 it was seems to be a good idea to have "with" 
in LiveScript? Was it TurboPascal or something?


Brendan Eich wrote:
> 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
>

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