Are there legitimate uses for JavaScript's “with” statement?

Question

Alan Storm\'s comments in response to my answer regarding the with statement got me thinking. I\'ve seldom found a reason to use this particular language feature, and had ne

Answer 1

You can define a small helper function to provide the benefits of with without the ambiguity:

var with_ = function (obj, func) { func (obj); };

with_ (object_name_here, function (_)
{
    _.a = "foo";
    _.b = "bar";
});