…brevity, perhaps?
Too often, I see code like:
Groovy lets us create much neater code:
I find the version with ‘with’ much clearer. It isn’t actually shorter but–much more importantly–the code clearly indicates: “Dear MAINTAINER: this is doing a bunch of things that are related or require a shared context; break this apart at YOUR PERIL.”
It’s not perfect, but it is better than nothing and it’ll do for now…
I put this out there in the hope that a few will discover this ‘new’ statement (the ‘with’ statement is present in algol68, and may even be older), and a few others will recall it…my contribution to a better world ;-)
