John VanSickle wrote:
> 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();

Yeah. The person I saw advocating this also recommended command/query 
separation, so anything that sets a parameter wouldn't be able to return a 
value.  It would be interesting to know what he'd think of this sort of 
chaining, tho, which doesn't seem to violate the spirit of C/Q.

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