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Several other languages have a 'fluent' or chained-invokation style of api, which allows you to do calls like this:
public class CatMap : ClassMap<Cat>
{
public CatMap()
{
Id(x => x.Id);
Map(x => x.Name)
.Length(16)
.Not.Nullable();
Map(x => x.Sex);
References(x => x.Mate);
HasMany(x => x.Kittens);
}
}
Notable examples include fluent nhibernate, jquery method chaining, etc. It's a common (and I'd say quite well loved) api design pattern.
Problem: The go syntax doesn't seem to support this.
You can do this in go:
var blah = X().Y().Thing().OtherThing()
...but this:
package main
import "n"
func main() {
n.Log(":D")
.Example()
.Example
}
Results in:
> command-line-arguments
> ./app.go:7: syntax error: unexpected .
...basically, because go automatically inserts ;'s at the end of a line.
Anyone know if there's a way around this?
Can you disable the auto-; in a block somehow?
Or is this sort of api just not possible in go?
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