nemesis wrote:
> Darren New escreveu:
>> Mike Raiford wrote:
>>> That is how C# is now. Sometimes it would be nice just to have one 
>>> function with defaults, rather than 3 overloads of the same function 
>>> that simply delegate back to the "full featured" function.
>>
>> No, i mean instead of
>>   job.print(orient:landscape, copies:2, paper:A4)
>> the suggestion it that it's much more OO to say
>>   job.initialize()
>>   job.orient(landscape)
>>   job.copies(2)
>>   job.paper(A4)
>>   job.print()
> 
> More OO, or more assemblyish?  I mean, you individually feed the stack 
> and then call a function using those arguments already in the stack. ;)

Some class designers would make most of the member functions in class 
PrintJob return a reference to the class so that this could be one line:

job.initialize().orient(landscape).copies(2).paper(A4).print();

Of course, there would also be interminable debate about whether there 
should be an initialize() member in any C++ class, and I'm sure that 
some would want to override the streaming operator so that it could be 
used to feed some of the parameters to the PrintJob class.

Regards,
John

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