Chaining Methods and Fortress

[Leo Sutic]

Peter Donald wrote:
> Because all the methods return this. In many cases this is considered a problem
> because it hides problems relating to;
>
> * synchronization
> * resource management etc.
>
> While those don't cover our situation I still consider
> it a bad practice because mutators/accessors should be
> sideeffect free IMO.

It is using the named parameter idiom:

* http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ctors.html#faq-10.17

The code has no problems with synchronization or resource management because it is explicitly supposed to be used that way, and I think the use of the above idiom is justified in this case.

So please don't change it. (-1)

/LS



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