Is there any particular reason why the 'with' statement is restricted to work with classes only?  I keep running into situations where using it with (all?) other D constructs, like structs, enums and such, would be quite useful; making it a sort of specialized 'alias' instead of something so limited.

- EricAnderton at yahoo

pragma wrote:
> Is there any particular reason why the 'with' statement is restricted to work
> with classes only?  I keep running into situations where using it with (all?)
> other D constructs, like structs, enums and such, would be quite useful; making
> it a sort of specialized 'alias' instead of something so limited.
> 
> - EricAnderton at yahoo

IIRC it does work with structs. I think I have used it.

In article <dupphj$qf4$1@digitaldaemon.com>, BCS says...
>
>pragma wrote:
>> Is there any particular reason why the 'with' statement is restricted to work with classes only?  I keep running into situations where using it with (all?) other D constructs, like structs, enums and such, would be quite useful; making it a sort of specialized 'alias' instead of something so limited.
>> 
>> - EricAnderton at yahoo
>
>IIRC it does work with structs. I think I have used it.

Ahh, so it does.  I think what threw me was the error message when you use something that isn't supported, like an enum:

test4.d(8): with expressions must be class objects, not 'Foobar'

- EricAnderton at yahoo

Error message at bottom should be:

"with expressions must be class objects or structs"

pragma wrote:
> In article <dupphj$qf4$1@digitaldaemon.com>, BCS says...
> 
>>pragma wrote:
>>
>>>Is there any particular reason why the 'with' statement is restricted to work
>>>with classes only?  I keep running into situations where using it with (all?)
>>>other D constructs, like structs, enums and such, would be quite useful; making
>>>it a sort of specialized 'alias' instead of something so limited.
>>>
>>>- EricAnderton at yahoo
>>
>>IIRC it does work with structs. I think I have used it.
> 
> 
> Ahh, so it does.  I think what threw me was the error message when you use
> something that isn't supported, like an enum:
> 
> test4.d(8): with expressions must be class objects, not 'Foobar'
> 
> - EricAnderton at yahoo