Re:A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no li...
by jgraham on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @09:26PM
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> "with" gets a bad rap, and its blanket discouragement/deprecation may be as big a mistake as its original design
Unfortunately not. The design of with not only makes the code difficult to reason about for humans, it also makes the code difficult to reason about for js engines, and so it typically prevents any interesting optimisations. So code written using "with" will be both confusing and slow.
Unfortunately not. The design of with not only makes the code difficult to reason about for humans, it also makes the code difficult to reason about for js engines, and so it typically prevents any interesting optimisations. So code written using "with" will be both confusing and slow.