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From: gemini@homxb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: WITH statement in C
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Date: Sat, 12-Jul-86 11:31:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 12 11:31:37 1986
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>      I dislike Pascal as much as the next C hacker, but one feature that could
> be useful to add to C is something akin to the Pascal "WITH" statement.  
> 
> Daryl Clevenger

	I like this feature too, if for no other reason than: it reduces the
	possibilities of having to look at someones code which is wider than
	80 columns on a display with only 80 columns.  (There are still a lot
	of 132 column junkies out there who like to carry around those massive
	tomes of output.)

	The only serious Pascal program I ever wrote was 3-Demon, which many
	of you may have seen on RBBS's (well serious in size, not in function!).

	I recall only two joys in using the language: the opportunity to
	use a WITH statement, and the Microsoft-ism of allowing '[' and ']'
	as synonyms for BEGIN and END.

Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. (201) 922-1134, (201) 834-1378 @ AT&T-CP
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