« What’s with the ‘with’ statement»
- Published on › 07.03.07 | Filed under › Interesting
I came across a bug in some actionscript lately which took a while to pinpoint in the end it was because of the use of the with statement. It appears that using the with statement on a property that's not currently defined and setting it to a value doesn't work i.e.
This does work
Actionscript:
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var myObj = new Object();
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myObj.foo = "blah";
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with (myObj) {
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foo = "test";
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}
This doesn't work
Actionscript:
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var myObj = new Object();
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with (myObj) {
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foo = "test";
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}
The documentation does clarify this, all the same this isn't intuitive and limits the power of shorthanding your code by method of using a with statement - sigh.
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