[Pharo-users] A "with" construct like Pascal - easy to do, but is it terrible?

I’ve noticed that as we’ve progressed there has been a move to more concise and fluid code - e.g. I quite like the new String streaming stuff e.g. ^ String streamContents: [ :stream | stream nextPut: …. ] So I was wondering why we don’t have a construct like Pascals with to avoid Book1.title, Book1.author etc. (* book 1 specification *) With Book1 do begin title := 'C Programming'; author := 'Nuha Ali '; subject := 'C Programming Tutorial'; book_id := 6495407; end; I often find it a bit tedious with code like the following which then needs an instvar... self classes do: [ :class | | metaclass | metaclass := class metaclass. metaclass xxxx. mataclass yyyy. ] I’m wondering why we don’t have #with:do: class with: class metaclass do: [:metaclass | metaclass xxx. ] But when such things aren’t there - there is usually a good reason and I’m curious … this said, there are all kinds of other such tricks (which I rarely use that I keep coming across). Tim