Re: with child: access to parent

[Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Wes Groleau <wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> wrote:
> Some style guides suggest _always_ listing the parent specifically
> if anything in it is referenced.  I guess the idea is to prevent
> compile errors if the child references are removed.  But how many
> places actually take the trouble of removing unused withs?  And
> what is the more expensive way to find the need to add one--to
> carefully eyeball the code, or to compile and look at the messages?

Of course it is a welcome convenience to save a couple of "with"s.
An advanced binder/linker will automagically leave out heavy-weight
unused parts of executable code, anyway.
For readable programs I am considering a largely use-less style
more favorable than the above (style-) rule.

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