Does this have a real world use?

[krilnon (Kyle Murray)]

Looks like a way to spell the with construct that's been discussed a bit:

Circling back to `with`

Over the past couple of days, the Twitters have discovered some work I'd done on closure-based setup. It's clear that a demand is out there and strong for this kind of behavior, even without implicit `self` as part of the mix or cascading. In that light, I've put together the following: If the community demand is this high, I think we should re-consider pushing it before 3. Feedback as always welcome, including criticism. -- E Introducing with to the Standard Library Proposal: TBD Auth…

What about a VBA style with Statement?

I recently learned some VBA and I found a very conveniently `with` statement. `with` statement can be helpful to set property for UIKit instance. for instance a UILabel instance `textLabel` ,with `with` statement we can set UILabel property like this with textLabel{ .textAlignment = .Left .textColor = UIColor.darkTextColor() .font = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(15) }