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- Subject: Re: [Benchmark] Chain calls
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:02:31 -0200
> Trouble is, does this pattern ever appear in normal code? I find
> it difficult to believe that calling a function that returns a
> function to be called, and so on, chained in this manner, could
> happen in real-world code.
Similar code is generated in chains of messages to objects, such as
o:a():b():c()
Several libraries return the object as the result of messages to allow
this kind of chaining.
