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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:42:08 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Vote] Partial Function Application
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Sat, Jun 19, 2021, at 12:39 AM, Hamza Ahmad wrote:
> HI Larry Garfield,
> 
> Do you have a plan to further extend this rfc? I mean, what if one
> could typecast place holders? Broadly speaking, what if one could
> perform some operations, such as arithmetic, bitwise, and type cast as
> said above?
> 
> `$foo = bar((type) ?);`
> `$foo = bar(? & 0xFF);`
> 
> Best
> Hamza Ahmad

We have no plans to extend it in that fashion, no.  The only follow up I have in mind myself is the pipes RFC.  If you want to do inline processing like that on a function call, then I think you are better off using a short lambdas as you already can today.

--Larry Garfield