Hey Larry, On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 6:00 PM Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> Hi Marco. Thank you for your explanation, even if I naturally disagree. > > Out of curiosity, what sort of additional > power/capability/flexibility/etc. would, in your mind, justify pipe or > similar being a native feature? PHP has a *ton* of native features that > *could* be done in user space, or are simply syntax sugar, but still wildly > popular and useful as native syntax. What is your heuristic for that? > > (The fact that there are 3-4 user space implementations of pipe-like > behavior, all incompatible, is one of the reasons why I think standardizing > it into a common core syntax *is* a good idea, though I know others > disagree.) > I think the pipe operator as a **custom** operator made sense when we had the entire discussion around placeholder parameters (`$$`) to be used in the pipeline. As a plain "chain of functions with one input parameter and one output", it makes little sense to have it as a custom construct, as it only adds complexity to the AST. Greets, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/
