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Subject: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Pipe Operator (again)
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

Hi folks.  A few years ago I posted an RFC for a pipe operator, as seen in many other languages.  At the time it didn't pass, in no small part because the implementation was a bit shaky and it was right before freeze.  Nonetheless, there are now even more (bad) user-space implementations in the wild, as it gets brought up frequently in "what do you want in PHP?" threads (though nowhere near generics or better async, of course), so it seems clear there is demand in the market for it.

It is now back with a better implementation (many thanks to Ilija for his help and guidance in that), and it's nowhere close to freeze, so here we go again:

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v3

Of particular note, since the last RFC I have concluded that a compose operator is a necessary complement to a pipe operator.  However, it's also going to be notably more work, and the two operators don't actually interact at all at the code level, so since people keep saying "Small RFCs!", here's a small RFC. :-)

-- 
  Larry Garfield
  larry@garfieldtech.com