On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 5:54 AM, Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote:
> > With the branching of 7.1, and after some reflection on the previous
> > feedback, I'd like to reopen discussion of the Pipe Operator RFC
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator which I had previously put on
> > hold.  I've changed much of the argument wording of the proposal, but
> > not the substantive feature set.  If you still feel it's unworkable,
> > I'd like to encourage you to respond with what you think would make it
> > workable (if anything).  Thanks.
> >
> > -Sara
> >
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> I've talked to you about this RFC off-list, but I figured I should
> mention it on-list as well. I think we should make `|>` and `$$` two
> independent operators that work well together (rather than only
> together).
>
> The `|>` symbol would be the piping operator with these semantics:
>
>     1. Evaluate the left-hand side.
>     2. Evaluate the right-hand side. Assert that the result is callable.
>     3. Pass the result from 1. as the single argument to 2.
>
> When you say assert the right hand side is callable, does that mean to
call an object method, you would do [$obj, 'method']? What about functions,
is it just the name like $str |> trim, or is it $str |> trim()? Neither
makes sense to me in the context of PHP since methods/functions are named
objects, which is why when you pass a callback you have to give the string
name of the function instead of just the name of the function, IE
array_filter($arr, 'trim') vs array_filter($arr, trim).

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