Thanks Zac. That's one reason I hadn't thought of.
________________________________ From: Zac Spitzer <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2009 10:12:35 AM Subject: [CFCDEV] Re: Method chaining i have seen sometimes with CF is that exceptions with this style ( or nesting ) throw somewhat confusing error messages, i found that CF is easier to debug with the classic line at a time z On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Alan Livie <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have just read some code in a Hibernate book that uses a lot of > method chaining ie setFoo(1).setBar('myvar').setThis(x).setThat(y) etc > > I remember some old Open University days doing Smalltalk when method > chaining was common as there was no VOID return type on methods so > setter methods tended to return THIS.I have also seen this a lot > recently doing jQuery work ie $("a").addClass("test").show().html > ("foo"); The methods return the jQuery object so chaining is possible. > > In CF (at least the code I've read and written) we don't tend to do > this. > > Is this for readability reasons or something else I'm not aware of? > > I think setter methods (and maybe other methods that return VOID) > returning THIS is a sensible idea so we can chain or not chain as we > see fit. > > > > > -- Zac Spitzer - http://zacster.blogspot.com +61 405 847 168 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
