Plot2kill 0.2

[Robert Jacques]

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).