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[UncleMeat]

An old grad school connection of mine wrote a formal semantics for ES5 and couldn't explain what "with" did in words.

[1f60c → UncleMeat]

This is JavaScript, so there are probably tons of weird edge cases, but basically, within a with (expr) { … } block, everything defined on expr is put in scope:

  with (Math) with (console) log(PI)

It reminds me a bit of Clojure's doto.

[kaba0 → 1f60c]

Or java’s static import