On 6 December 2012 05:05, Rick Waldron <waldron.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Again, I reject the notion that "someone might screw up" is a valid argument > for this, or any, discussion. It's one thing to be aware of the potential > for misuse, but entirely another to succumb to "fear driven design".
"Fear driven design" is pejorative. The argument really is about the ability to do local reasoning as much as possible, which is a *very* valid concern, especially when reading somebody else's code using somebody else's library. I agree with other voices in this thread that in general, returning 'this' rather is an anti pattern. You can get away with it if you limit it to very few well-known library functions, but I doubt that blessing such style in the std lib does help that cause. /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
