Joonas Bergius • 10/5/2018

Chaining should be an operator in the language itself

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The article critiques the common method chaining pattern (popularized by jQuery) as a flawed design that requires functions to return 'this', limiting their API and causing semantic and security issues. It proposes that chaining should be a fundamental operator in the programming language itself to solve these problems, using a real-world bug example to illustrate the dangers of the current implementation.

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