Comments on wickedcoolthoughts: The beauty of return this;

Fluent Interface

2007-12-21T17:19:00.000-08:00

Fluent Interface

Returning 'this' that lets developers chain method...

2007-12-19T06:40:00.000-08:00

Returning 'this' that lets developers chain method calls takes a lot of java developer by surprise.

This has always been a convention in smalltalk, and is one reason why smalltalk code is beautiful, and the code talks to you.

Method Chaining is a way of implementing DSLs (lik...

2007-12-19T05:34:00.000-08:00

Method Chaining is a way of implementing DSLs (like JMock does) or Fluent Interfaces. Martin's book draft has a lot of information (the URI you wrote is correct), althouh I sightly disagree with him.

Other text about those language adaptations:

http://fragmental.tw/research-on-dsls/language-adaption/

But method chaining is not used only for this, languages like Smalltalk uses this all the time without creating a new or specialized language.

Cheers

Phillip Calçado
http://fragmental.tw

Thank you for the reference. Is this the URL (http...

2007-12-19T01:51:00.000-08:00

Thank you for the reference. Is this the URL (http://martinfowler.com/dslwip/)? The page is not found. do you know about any alternate sources for the same.

Is method chaining specific to DSL?(sorry I am not familiar with DSL)

This is just Method Chaining of a DSL.See Martin F...

2007-12-19T01:04:00.000-08:00

This is just Method Chaining of a DSL.
See Martin Fowlers DSL Book (work in progress)

Michael