<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Ian Zimmerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:itz@buug.org" target="_blank">itz@buug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Shannon> (Slightly off topic.) I am a language guy, so I love looking<br>
Shannon> at other languages for cool features. You're looking for a way<br>
Shannon> to chain a bunch of method calls together, a la jQuery.<br>
<br>
IIRC it is mentioned in the Stroustrup C++ book, which surely precedes<br>
jQuery :-P</blockquote><div><br></div><div>To be fair, Stroustrup's book is large enough to contain a copy of "War and Peace", so perhaps it's forgivable that I didn't notice it ;)</div><div><br></div>
<div>According to (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_chaining">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_chaining</a>), the practice may have started in Smalltalk.</div><div><br></div><div>-jj</div></div><div><br></div>
-- <br>In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa<br>