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By Stephen Chapman, About.com Guide to JavaScript

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Thursday June 25, 2009
JavaScript has a few commands that can be very inefficient if used incorrectly.

One of the least understood and least efficient reserved words in JavaScript is with. What is it for and how do you use it? Well is used to specify an object to which all of the unreferenced properties and methods in a following block of code are to be applied.

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