[DUG] Why use a set when a string will work OK (and less code )?

[Alister Christie]

I believe the refactoring engine has problems with "with" statements.  
Which is probably in itself enough of a reason for me to stop using them.

Alister Christie
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Ross Levis wrote:
> I tend to do this as well when it is obviously quite safe and saves a lot of
> typing.  The problem is debugging.  The debugger (in D7 anyway) will not
> resolve the variables unless they are fully qualified on the line.  I have
> always found this very annoying.  Code Insight resolves everything fine in
> the IDE, just the debugger is the problem.
>
> Ross.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
> Behalf Of John Bird
> Sent: Friday, 11 May 2007 19:16
> To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> Subject: RE: [DUG] Why use a set when a string will work OK (and less code
> )?
>
> I thought using "with" with a single argument, not nested, would be a clean
> and elegant practice, like:
>
>   with stringgrid1 do
>   begin
>     cells[5,tcgmax]:=uline;
>     cells[6,tcgmax]:=uline;
>     nextstrgrdMaTC;
>     cells[3,tcgmax]:='Totals';
>     cells[5,tcgmax]:=inttostr(trntotu);
>     cells[6,tcgmax]:=xfformat('deitos','',trntot,10,2);
>   end;
>
> It doesn't confuse the Code Insight either (something Malcolm Groves said is
> a disadvantage of using it....)
>
> John
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