Message from JavaScript discussions

November 2017

— It slows down all other identifiers

—

var thing = { test: 123 };
with (thing) {
  console.log(test);
}

equal to

var thing = { test: 123 };
console.log(thing.test);

— Ohhh that explains what unscopables are

— Heh

— Yeah

— TIL

— with seems like it could be useful... but not for any of the reasons on the MDN page lol

— "less filesize" is a ridiculous reason to use with imo, we have uglifiers for that

— Learned something else too, you can re-throw errors out of catch blocks

— IRL prod code:

—

} catch (error) {
  if ("error" in strategy) {
    // Run `error` if an error occured;
    var errorReturnValue = strategy.error(state, error);
    if (errorReturnValue !== undefined) {
      returnValue = errorReturnValue;
    }
  } else {
    throw error;
  }
}

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— WAIT WHAT THE HELL