Method Chaining
Ned Batchelder
ned at nedbatchelder.com
Fri Jun 17 20:02:30 EDT 2016
On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 6:23:12 PM UTC-4, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 8:13:50 PM UTC+12, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> > But the unchained version is more explicit, and avoids
> > the awkward parenthesis.
>
> You think of parentheses as “awkward”? Because elsewhere I see people recommending you put them in even if you don’t need them, for “clarity”.
Parentheses are used for a number of different purposes. It won't be
possible to make a sweeping statement about them everywhere.
I use "extra" parentheses to make operator application order clearer
where it isn't obvious to me, for example.
--Ned.
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