Plot2kill 0.2

[Michel Fortin]

On 2011-03-05 15:22:15 -0500, "Robert Jacques" <sandford at jhu.edu> said:

> On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:42:32 -0500, bearophile 
> <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  wrote:
> 
>> dsimcha:
>> 
>>> I've done some major updating of my Plot2kill plotting library lately,
>> 
>> I see code that wants named arguments :-)
>> 
>> 65 	    auto sleepinessFig = Figure(sleepinessPlot)
>> 66 	        .title("Sleepiness Survey")
>> 67 	        .yLabel("Sleepiness Rating")
>> 68 	        .xLabel("Activity")
>> 69 	        .legendLocation(LegendLocation.right)
>> 70 	        .horizontalGrid(true)
>> 71 	        .xTickLabels(
>> 72 	            iota(3),
>> 73 	            ["In Meeting", "On Phone", "Coding"]
>> 74 	        );
>> 
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> Why? Each of those arguments should be able to be set after creation. 
> So  given DRY principals, method chaining is the way to go. Besides, 
> Figure  takes a variable number of plot arguments, which means you 
> couldn't  support default arguments (at least with the current syntax).

The funny thing is what will happen to this code once @property is 
properly implemented? I think this is a cleaner way to write the above, 
and it'll work with @property:

	auto sleepinessFig = Figure(sleepinessPlot);
	with (sleepinessFig) {
		title = "Sleepiness Survey";
		yLabel = "Seeliness Rating";
		xLabel = "Activity";
		legendLocation = LegendLocation.right;
		horizontalGrid = true;
		xTickLabels(iota(3), ["In meeting, "On Phone", "Coding]);
	}

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