PROPOSAL: Return 'this' (original) (raw)

Reinier Zwitserloot reinier at zwitserloot.com
Thu Mar 26 14:06:24 PDT 2009

That argument makes no sense. If you're concerned about lines, try:

with (object) { method1(); method2(); method3(); }

If your coding style guide says that you must neccessarily newline
after braces and semicolons, then you should question why that rule
exists, and why it would not exist for the builder pattern.

Incidentally, I like a return this proposal more, because I think it's
lower impact (no new keyword, we're already familiar with methods that
return themselves, a complete proposal would just enshrine this
practice into canon), and looks better. Just saying that 'number of
lines' is not a valid argument against.

--Reinier Zwitserloot

On Mar 26, 2009, at 21:16, Marek Kozieł wrote:

W dniu 26 marca 2009 19:30 użytkownik Gabriel Belingueres <belingueres at gmail.com> napisał:

Wouldn't it be simpler to add a Pascal-like "with" statement? This would solve at least the method chaining issue:

with(object) { method1(); metohd2(); ... methodN(); } Simpler? Yes. Better? No. this would look like method execution from current class. This would be better: with(object) { .method1(); .metohd2(); ... .methodN(); } Other problem are lines, this solution use n+2 lines: it's exactly kind of problem that people want to prevent. -- Pozdrowionka. / Regards. Lasu aka Marek Kozieł http://lasu2string.blogspot.com/

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