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For crying out loud (Score:3, Insightful)

by djberg96 (2603) on 2003.06.16 8:41 (#21106) Journal

See Want.pm. Anyone who wants to support method chaining as a regular feature of their module ought to be using this. No more of this "do I return $self or a $value" nonsense.

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- Re:For crying out loud (Score:1)
  
  by Revelation (4242)
  
  That doesn't really help too much. Want.pm can't distinguish between the different objects that could be wanted, getting a program to think metacognitively at that complexity is impossible. (If you've invented AI *that* good, Terminator 3 will soon become a reality...)
  
  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

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