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 use with to avoid having to explicitly manage arity when using require.js:

var modules = requirejs.declare([{
    'App' : 'app/app'
}]);

require(modules.paths(), function() { with (modules.resolve(arguments)) {
    App.run();
}});

Implementation of requirejs.declare:

requirejs.declare = function(dependencyPairs) {
    var pair;
    var dependencyKeys = [];
    var dependencyValues = [];

    for (var i=0, n=dependencyPairs.length; i