Referring to original object in With statement

Question

I know that I can use a With statement to make repeated references to a single object:

With myObj
  .StringProperty = ""
  .BooleanProperty = False
End With

However, what I want to know is: is there a shorthand for referring to the original object in the With statement? In the above example, can I refer to myObj without explicitly typing myObj as I'm already working with it.

Can you edit the question to give an example of where this would be useful? — quamrana, Dec 23 '12 at 22:33
This is not a duplicate question, but the answer's still the same: http://stackoverflow.com/q/1152983/256431 — Mark Hurd, Dec 30 '12 at 06:25
@quamrana Being able to pass the object as an argument is an example. — geekchic, Jan 07 '13 at 10:42

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '12 at 15:27

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No you can't, but it wouldn't mean much anyway. With just sets the default scope to the object expression that follows it. If you need a reference to the object this doesn't help unless the object is one of the very few that has a .Self property, which is quite rare.

answered Dec 21 '12 at 15:27

Bob77

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+1. There are a lot of objects that would allow a structure like `.Child.Parent`, but again that's not particularly useful. – Daniel Dec 21 '12 at 16:10
I suspected as much, but just wanted to make sure. – geekchic Dec 21 '12 at 16:24
There are times when it might be handy if you could use `.` to pick up the object reference, but it just doesn't work that way. – Bob77 Dec 21 '12 at 16:46
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I miss this feature, esp. when doing `With New cMyClass ... End With` – wqw Dec 22 '12 at 10:30

Referring to original object in With statement

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