Are there legitimate uses for JavaScript's “with” statement?

Question

Alan Storm\'s comments in response to my answer regarding the with statement got me thinking. I\'ve seldom found a reason to use this particular language feature, and had ne

Answer 1

My

switch(e.type) {
    case gapi.drive.realtime.ErrorType.TOKEN_REFRESH_REQUIRED: blah
    case gapi.drive.realtime.ErrorType.CLIENT_ERROR: blah
    case gapi.drive.realtime.ErrorType.NOT_FOUND: blah
}

boils down to

with(gapi.drive.realtime.ErrorType) {switch(e.type) {
    case TOKEN_REFRESH_REQUIRED: blah
    case CLIENT_ERROR: blah
    case NOT_FOUND: blah
}}

Can you trust so low-quality code? No, we see that it was made absolutely unreadable. This example undeniably proves that there is no need for with-statement, if I am taking readability right ;)