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

I think the object literal use is interesting, like a drop-in replacement for using a closure

for(var i = nodes.length; i--;)
{
       // info is namespaced in a closure the click handler can access!
       (function(info)
       {           
            nodes[i].onclick = function(){ showStuff(info) };
       })(data[i]);
}

or the with statement equivilent of a closure

for(var i = nodes.length; i--;)
{
       // info is namespaced in a closure the click handler can access!
       with({info: data[i]})
       {           
            nodes[i].onclick = function(){ showStuff(info) };
       }        
}

I think the real risk is accidently minipulating variables that are not part of the with statement, which is why I like the object literal being passed into with, you can see exactly what it will be in the added context in the code.