> Sometimes it is called a fluent-interface in other languages.
Where've you heard it called that? I've normally heard tacit programming
Re:Left to Right Programming
by michaelfeathers on Monday August 18, 2025 @07:39PM
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The developers of JMock, the original library for Java.
Or "point-less" style ;)
Could you elaborate? AFAIK tacit programming tend to be scrambling around composition, paren, and args which makes left-to-right reading significantly harder for function with arity greater than 2.
I find Java's method reference or Rust's namespace resolution + function as an argument much better than Haskell tacit-style for left-to-right reading.
It's chaining functions with a dot, just like you do in typical OO languages.
When it's OO, it's a virtue that everyone loves - a "fluent interface".
When it's FP - oh it's unreadable! Why don't they just break every line out with an intermediate variable so I know what's going on!
Sometimes it is called a fluent-interface in other languages.