Undocumented method of chaining functions?

[philmasterplus]

I was looking at the source of Zlib for coding lessons when I read:

str.contains_text( another_str )

I was intrigued to find that a similar syntax could be applied to other functions, especially custom ones:

<return type> function_name( type1 var1, type2 var2, ... )
var1.function_name( type2 var2, ... )

My poor forum searching skills yielded no information about this. Is this an unreliable or official feature? Because I'd like to add this to the KoLmafia wiki.

 

[Bale]

Official feature. It probably should be listed on the wiki.

Any function can be called "java style" as var1.function_name( var2, var3, ... )

 

[StDoodle]

Yeah, I pestered Bale about this one a while back. I thought it had been added in somewhere, but it appears not. I'll try to get it here if no one beats me to it.

 

[Bale]

It seems that Heeheehee has ninja'ed you both by adding it to the wiki himself.

 

[heeheehee]

Wasn't really a ninja, per se -- I added it as a result of this thread (more specifically, StD's response).

 

[Bale]

You slipped in and posted quietly before anyone else could respond. That's a ninja. Just accept it.

 

[StDoodle]

Ha, Bale ninja'd me on posting that hee^3 ninja'd me on the edit. FTW!

 

[That FN Ninja]

FN ninjas! There everywhere!

 

[zarqon]

*They're

 

[Winterbay]

Or, "There? Everywhere!"

 

[zarqon]

Hmmm yes. Or "Here, there, everywhere."

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