Re: [julia-users] Has anyone done a Pascal-style "with" statement (i.e., macro)?

[Toivo Henningsson]

I think at the point were you start to mark up the with variables specially 
(which I think is a good thing), you might as well do eg

let f = foo
    f.a = 1
    f.b = "frozzbozz"
    # ...
end

It's just two characters and it doesn't require any new language features at 
all.