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On 5/3/2016 8:12 PM, Sara Golemon wrote:
> The difference with scalar objects is:
> A) We need to agree on what methods these objects are going to have.
> ((And we won't agree))
>=20

The nice thing here is that we could start with the things that we agree
on and develop it from there further.

On 5/3/2016 8:12 PM, Sara Golemon wrote:
> We could maybe hedge our bets with a ->invoke(Callable) method that
> pushes the value into an arbitrary closure, but that's just adding
> complexity to... avoid adding complexity... o.O
>=20

That would be pure evil.

On 5/3/2016 8:12 PM, Sara Golemon wrote:
> B) It's not just about scalars.
>=20
> $foo =3D SomeLibrary::create(...)
>   |> SomeOtherLibrary::render($$)
>   |> $foo->send($$);
>=20
> Scalar objects don't help this case at all, and since the object
> instances are coming from some third-party library, making them
> instantiate extended children instead isn't necessarily a trivial
> thing (arguments about poorly designed libraries aside).
>=20
> I like the scalar objects approach as well.  Heck, I wrote one three
> years ago: https://github.com/sgolemon/objectifier but I don't think
> it solves the same problem space as pipe chaining.
>=20

The pipe operator is also just a work around for poorly designed
libraries in this case and yields more poorly designed libraries.

--=20
Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger


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