On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Benjamin Joffe wrote:
>
> Each of the methods defined for the canvas 2d context return null. I
> think it would be very convenient if instead they would return a
> reference to the 2d context for that canvas. This would allow writing
> such code as ctx.fill().stroke() or ctx.moveTo(0,0).lineTo(10,10). This
> is how many of the native string and array methods work in javaScript.
Why is that better than:
with (ctx) {
moveTo(0, 0)
lineTo(10, 10)
fill()
stroke()
}
...?
(Or on one line:
with (ctx) { moveTo(0, 0); lineTo(10, 10); fill(); stroke(); }
...?)
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