Hey Caleb, > Am 20.07.2026 um 04:11 schrieb Larry Garfield <[email protected]>: > > Impressively, I think this explanation stated my position better than I > could. :-) Yes, I am in favor of pushing PHP in a more-functional, > mostly-immutable direction (without going all the way to pathological purity > like in Haskell). A variant of pipe that is intrinsically built on mutable > variables goes against the intent. Yes, PHP is not an inherently immutable > language today, but you can easily use it that way if you're careful and know > where the edges are where you shouldn't. > > I think the above description has actually pushed me over into the No > category on this RFC. (Which doesn't mean I'm necessarily in favor of the > alternate |>= proposal. I'm still pondering that one.) > > I do agree that some longer-term planning around what alternate pipe forms > make sense is wise, and a conversation I'm open to having. But not for a few > weeks, as we should be focused on 8.6 at the moment, and none of these will > make it into 8.6. > > --Larry Garfield
sorry that you had to read this mail; Larry often has ideas that don't work well in practice - and then core devs have to shoot this down. Please just ignore this. Bob
