Could really do with a Delphi "WITH" equivalent

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Grey Alien

Sometimes I could really do with an equivalent of the Delphi With statement in Bmax. It doesn't compile to anything, it just saves lots of typing. For example:

MyHumoungousType.SomeOtherPArt.AnotherBit.X = 1
MyHumoungousType.SomeOtherPArt.AnotherBit.Y = 1
MyHumoungousType.SomeOtherPArt.AnotherBit.DoSomething()

Can be written as:

With MyHumoungousType.SomeOtherPArt.AnotherBit do
begin
  x=1
  y=1
  dosomething()
End

Yes I know in BMax I can just do:

MyAlias:TThing = MyHumoungousType.SomeOtherPArt.AnotherBit
MyAlias.x=1
MyAlias.y=1
MyAlias.DoSomething()

But that means the code actually has to create an alias an manipulate it at runtime whereas the Delphi version just change "scope" for convenience at compiletime.