EndWith keyword; what for?

[Psychophanta]

Isn't useless EndWith keyword ? :roll:

[Phoenix]

It's used after the With keyword so why is it useless?

[Joakim Christiansen]

It's not useless!

[Psychophanta]

Yes, but if there was omitted nothing would happen.
'With' statement is a precompiler one.
You can write 'With list()' at any place of your code, and after it you can refer to list()\var1 (for example) making: 'With list()\var1' and after it there could be 'With struc2' for example ... and so on... and never need for a EndWith instruction.
So then, why is needed the EndWith statement
The only reason i find is for return to a normal path writing, but i find it a bit nonsense.

(This is a request, it should be in the requests section.)

[netmaestro]

With is a macro that goes along and adds stuff to the lines inside the With-EndWith block, fleshing them out to fully qualify the references. I guess it needs to know when to stop, else it would be adding "MyList()" or whatever to every line in the program.

[Joakim Christiansen]

You all must be crasy...
This is just sick...

[Psychophanta]

With is a macro that goes along and adds stuff to the lines inside the With-EndWith block, fleshing them out to fully qualify the references. I guess it needs to know when to stop, else it would be adding "MyList()" or whatever to every line in the program.

Well, that's an explanation about how is internally done the With-EndWith stuff.
But my request disregard how or how not it is done.
I only say that 'With' has no need to be ended with a EndWith, but only ending program or with another 'With'.

[Phoenix]

EndWith is used to close a With block like this:

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Structure One
  OneItem1.b
  OneItem2.b
  OneItem3.b
EndStructure

Structure Two
  TwoItem1.b
  TwoItem2.b
  TwoItem3.b
EndStructure

With One
  \OneItem1=1
  \OneItem2=2
  \OneItem3=3
EndWith

With Two
  \TwoItem1=1
  \TwoItem2=2
  \TwoItem3=3
EndWith

You couldn't do that without EndWith so that's why it's needed.

[Fred]

It's mostly here to enhance the readibility and ensure than you won't use the orphean '\' feature outside a block by mistake.

[Trond]

With is a macro that goes along and adds stuff to the lines inside the With-EndWith block, fleshing them out to fully qualify the references. I guess it needs to know when to stop, else it would be adding "MyList()" or whatever to every line in the program.

Well, that's an explanation about how is internally done the With-EndWith stuff.
But my request disregard how or how not it is done.
I only say that 'With' has no need to be ended with a EndWith, but only ending program or with another 'With'.

That's the same for enumerations as well. But we never heard anything about that. In fact, we don't need the enumeration keyword at all, since we can do #Constant = value and the next constant will get the next value!

I think Fred said the obvious about it.

[Psychophanta]

In fact, we don't need the enumeration keyword at all, since we can do #Constant = value and the next constant will get the next value!

Agree!

[Trond]

In fact, we don't need the enumeration keyword at all, since we can do #Constant = value and the next constant will get the next value!

Agree!

But I don't!

[Psychophanta]

In fact, we don't need the enumeration keyword at all, since we can do #Constant = value and the next constant will get the next value!

Agree!

But I don't!

I already knew it.

[Trond]

In fact, we don't need the enumeration keyword at all, since we can do #Constant = value and the next constant will get the next value!

Agree!

But I don't!

I already knew it.

I already knew that.

[thefool]

You all must be crasy...
This is just sick...

no its not useless, but its useless calling anyone crazy.. especially when you spell it with an s