J2 proposal: keyword

[John Lenton]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 03:06:09PM -0400, Peter Hansen wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >So, FWIW, I think both "using" and "with" are fine,
> >although both of those remind me of completely unrelated
> >things.
> >
> >("Using" as in the "print using" statement of certain
> >ancient dialects of BASIC which was used for formatted
> >output, as well as the "use" statement in perl to import
> >a module.  
> 
> I would call this a good precedent.  Or at least I'd
> say that they choose the word well for that purpose,
> and our purpose here is very similar.
> 
> (For those that don't recall this, I believe it was
> similar to if not exactly like the following, where
> it functions rather like a decorator in the sense
> of transforming the usual function in a certain way:
> 
>   PRINT USING '$###.##', total_dollars
> )

agh! I hate you! I had successfully erased that from my brain :(

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