On 3/11/2011 2:49 AM, Kagamin wrote:
dsimcha Wrote:The problem with the with statement idea is that you still need to declare the variable. I often throw up quick anonymous plots with anonymous Figure objects, like: Histogram(someDataSet).toFigure .title("A Title") .xLabel("Stuff") .showAsMain();It's also easier to debug code if you store objects in variables. What if histogram is created with a bug, how would you diagnose it? If you have the histogram stored in a variable, you can put a breakpoint after the assignment and inspect the histogram, but your example doesn't provide a variable to inspect.
Well, then give it a name if you ever end up needing to. In general I hate this as an argument against terse but readable code because you can always make things into named variables very easily if you ever need to set a breakpoint there. Usually I use as few named variables as I can without hurting readability when I program, both to save typing and because I find it hard to think of good names for intermediate variables, so I end up naming them something horrible.
