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Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>
Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:59:28 -0400

I find both code fragments you sent equally opaque. I do not see that method chaining makes this any better.

Bottom line: I'm sorry but method chaining just offends my aesthetic sensibility. It's not going to happen.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

[XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Wolfgang Hoschek, 08/16/2004
- Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 08/16/2004
  - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Wolfgang Hoschek, 08/16/2004
- Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Stefan Matthias Aust, 08/17/2004
  - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 08/17/2004
    - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) shouldreturn "this" for chaining, passani, 08/17/2004
      - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) shouldreturn "this" for chaining, Stefan Matthias Aust, 08/17/2004
      - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) shouldreturn "this" for chaining, John Cowan, 08/17/2004

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