Fluent interfaces and leaky abstractions

Question

What is a fluent interface? I can\'t find a good definition of this, but all I get are long code examples in a language I am not very familiar with (e.g. C++).

Also, wha

Answer 1

Thanks guys.

Great description.

My thought about fluent interfaces where that they were for readability. I could always read a chain of methods and how one is related to the previous/next method.

E.g. like the poster who posted the validation example (I have written code similar to that before).