You're remark of function chaining reminded me of a nice feture that a few OOP languages provide:
// pseudo syntax auto obj = new Object(); obj foo() ; bar() ; goo() foo, bar and goo above are three mesages (methods) that are sent to the same object. i.e. it's the same as doing: obj.foo(); obj.bar(); obj.goo(); this means the functions can return void instead of returning this like you'd do in C++/D. I think it provides a cleaner conceptual separation between multiple messages sent to one object and real chaining when foo returns obj2 which then receives message bar and so on.
