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}}</ref> even though [[newline|line breaks]] are often added between methods.
A similar syntax is [[method cascading]], where after the method call the expression evaluates to the current object, not the [[return value]] of the method. Cascading can be implemented using method chaining by having the method return the [[this (computer programming)|current object itself]]. Cascading is a key technique in [[fluent interface]]s, and since chaining is widely implemented in object-oriented languages while cascading isn't, this form of "cascading-by-chaining by returning <tt>this</tt>" is often referred to simply as "chaining". Both chaining and cascading come from the [[Smalltalk]] language.
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