what is the difference between cascading and chaining [closed]

Question

I just find from a forum about cascade. The question was what does cascading means in poo. I tried to find to google the answer, also tried to find some other stackoverflow threads about if but I couldn't. I just find this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_cascading

I know what is chaining, I used it, most in javascript, jquery and other languages, but I coundn't understand the difference between chaining and cascading. Can anybody help me? Or can anybody provide some useful links regarding to this?

Answer 1

Chaining is where you return the result of the method call to be used in the next call.

c#

Enumerable.Range(0,10).Skip(1).Aggregate(myList.First(),(result,listItem) => result += listItem));
//results in 45 being returned

Cascading can be implemented by using chaining when this is returned (making it sometimes tricky to differentiate between the two). jQuery does this.

jquery

$("#myId").css("background-color","blue").fadeIn().fadeOut();
//results in $("#myId") being returned