[Petal] [PATCH] Options via constructor rather than package globals

[Steve Purkis]

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 01:26  pm, William McKee wrote:

>>> 2. cascade-able accessor methods which let you do:
>>
>> Now I find this really, really useless :)
>
> I must agree. I've never seen this syntax before and am very thankful
> for that. It looks terrible. Is this a Java-inspired concept?

No, it's from Smalltalk.  (But then, Java copied everything from there 
so... ;-)
By default, methods return the current object in Smalltalk.  It's 
almost like an implicit 'with' statement...

-Steve