Does C++ have “with” keyword like Pascal?

Question

with keyword in Pascal can be use to quick access the field of a record. Anybody knows if C++ has anything similar to that?

Ex: I have a pointer with m

Answer 1

No, there is no with keyword in C/C++.

But you can add it with some preprocessor code:

/* Copyright (C) 2018 Piotr Henryk Dabrowski, Creative Commons CC-BY 3.0 */

#define __M2(zero, a1, a2, macro, ...) macro

#define __with2(object, as) \
    for (typeof(object) &as = (object), *__i = 0; __i < (void*)1; ++__i)

#define __with1(object) __with2(object, it)

#define with(...) \
    __M2(0, ##__VA_ARGS__, __with2(__VA_ARGS__), __with1(__VA_ARGS__))

Usage:

with (someVeryLongObjectNameOrGetterResultOrWhatever) {
    if (it)
        it->...
    ...
}

with (someVeryLongObjectNameOrGetterResultOrWhatever, myObject) {
    if (myObject)
        myObject->...
    ...
}

Simplified unoverloaded definitions (choose one):

unnamed (Kotlin style it):

#define with(object) \
    for (typeof(object) &it = (object), *__i = 0; __i < (void*)1; ++__i)

named:

#define with(object, as) \
    for (typeof(object) &as = (object), *__i = 0; __i < (void*)1; ++__i)

Of course the for loop always has only a single pass and will be optimized out by the compiler.