Fluent Interfaces

[Edited to correct an accidental misrepresentation, and again to correct an attribution, and again to correct some code] Martin Fowler is talking about interfaces again and, as usual, he’s mostly talking sense. This time he’s talking about what he’s christened ‘fluent interfaces’ – essentially interfaces that do a good job of removing hoopage (James Duncan’s handy term for all the jumping through hoops you have to do in order to achieve something that ought to be a lot simpler) from the client side of the interface.