With blocks in Visual Basic

One object, many touches: the block that drops the repetition.

Dim bill As New Invoice With {.Customer = "Acme Ltd", .Total = 240.0}

With bill
    .Total += 36.0
    .Paid = .Total < 300
    Console.WriteLine($"{.Customer} owes {.Total:F2}")
    Console.WriteLine($"settled: {.Paid}")
End With

Class Invoice
    Public Property Customer As String
    Public Property Total As Double
    Public Property Paid As Boolean
End Class

How it works

With bill scopes the dots; every bare .Total means bill.Total.
Reads, writes and method calls all shorten the same way.
With {...} on New is the initializer cousin of the block.

Keywords and builtins used here

Boolean
Class
Customer
Dim
Double
End
Invoice
New
Paid
Property
Public
String
Total
With

The run, in numbers

Lines: 14
Characters to type: 339
Tokens: 72
Three-star pace: 90 tpm

At the three-star pace of 90 tokens a minute, this run takes about 48 seconds.

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Step 1 of 3 in VB idioms, step 22 of 29 in Language basics.

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