Re: [Vala] Feature request: cascade operator

[Christian Johnson <_c_ mail com>]

Nor Jaidi Tuah <norjaidi tuah    > writes:
> > This can be simplified to:
> >
> > var window = new Window ()
> >     ..title = "Hello, World!"
> >     ..border_width = 10
> >     ..window_position = WindowPosition.CENTER
> >     ..set_default_size(350, 70);
>
> ... the above is troublesome.
>
> Consider this:
>     var x = new X()
>        ..y = new Y()
>        ..z = new Z();
>
> 'z' is ambiguous.
> Is that x.z (still cascading the X)
> or x.y.z (cascading the Y)

It would be x.z, the cascade started with X() so X() will be returned until
the cascade ends. Or in other words: X() is cascaded to Y() so the result of
Y() is discarded and X() is returned instead. Therefore ..z is still
cascading X().