-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of David A. Greene Sent: 17 June 2007 01:45 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Progress of Boost.SVG_Plot
On Saturday 16 June 2007 05:44, Paul A Bristow wrote:
What's the advantage over individual function calls as Phil and others have suggested?
Using the .axis_width().axis_color saves typing (and makes it more compact and allows grouping)
This is a poor reason to choose a design. I don't spend most of my time typing. I spend most of it maintaining what's already been written, and clarity is king.
Well it's your choice, but in C++ there are lots of examples of making things shorter to make them clearer (for example, not using operator+(a, b) ;-) Paul PS The IS a downside to chaining though - it means that one can't use the name for a getter function - you can't get myplot.axis_color() to return the color. But I doubt if this is useful in this application - one is setting the plot parameters.