ES3.1 Draft: 11 June 2008 version available

[Mike Cowlishaw]

> Regarding whether there's a compelling reason to ban "with", what
> about the issue that "with" is an insanely confusing construct?

Compared to many other notations that language standards committees 
consider 'non-controversial' (such as using '*' to mean multiply and 
'curly braces' for essential grouping) this would seem to be a very mild 
insanity.

Mike





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