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For crying out loud (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:For crying out loud (Score:1)
I could be wanting the object returned by $object->head, because you've made the head into its own greater object to allow for more methods, or I could want the object to be a chained method. How can you tell the difference? How can a maintanance programmer tell the difference? The problem with method chaining is that an idiom manifests itself in the same form as the standard, and that they stand for two completely different things. The contexts, for all intents and purposes, look _exactly_ the same. For a reader to read the documentation and check each method to see whether its chained, or can actually be returning a real object outweighs the gains created by a little extra brevity, and having all your manipulations of an object done at one time.
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