JUCE singleton classes: Fluent Interfaces?

General JUCE discussion
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has any thought been given to some of the singleton classes in juce to give them a fluent interface? basically, all the functions that currently return void get changed to return *this;

this would allow classes like the Desktop or ComponentAnimator class to have method chaining:

Desktop::getInstance().getAnimator()
                      .addChangeListener(a) // 'a' wants to listen for when the animation starts
                      .animateComponent(/* args */)
                      .removeChangeListener(a) //but not when it ends
                      .addChangeListener(b) // 'b' wants to know when the animation ends
                      .addChangeListener(c); // as does 'c'
              

MessageManager::getInstance().registerBroadcastListener()
                             .callFunctionOnMessageThread()
                             .broadcastMessage();

I believe classes like the Rectangle, Point, Line and String class already implement this design style.

has this ever been discussed?

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