Questions tagged [method-cascades]

Method cascades are a syntactic nicety to avoid having to repeat the receiver of a series of methods. They notably exist in smalltalk and dart.

In Smalltalk, this:

| window |
 window := Window new.
 window label: 'Hello'.
 window open

can be cascaded like this:

Window new
  label: 'Hello';
  open

In Dart, this:

var address = getAddress();
address.setStreet(“Elm”, “13a”);
address.city = “Carthage”;
address.state = “Eurasia”
address.zip(66666, extended: 6666);

Can be cascaded like this:

getAddress()
  ..setStreet(“Elm”, “13a”)
  ..city = “Carthage”
  ..state = “Eurasia”
  ..zip(66666, extended: 6666);