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		tofflos on Nov 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language > 1. Assignment by name. If A and B are structs (not official PL/I terminology), then A + B A = B copies similarly named fields of B to corresponding fields in A. Do you mean something like with-expressions? See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe....

masklinn on Nov 27, 2021 | [–]

The text isn't really clear, but from the wording it reads like the PL/I version will copy between existing instances of completely unrelated types.

AFAIK `with` will only "copy with overwrites", similar to e.g. Rust's `..x`.

steeleduncan on Nov 27, 2021 | [–]

I believe golang has a feature like this as well

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