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Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 09:35:41 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Pipe Operator
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 3:33 AM, Fran=C3=A7ois Laupretre <francois@php.net>=
 wrote:
> Le 14/05/2016 =C3=A0 01:36, Simon Welsh a =C3=A9crit :
\>> Sure, you could try to use the type of the value being passed in,
>> but that ends up much more magic and then you run into the same
>> problem with strpos, or password_verify, or a variety of other
>> functions that take multiple of the same type of argument where
>> order matters.
>
> Right. Some functions may have several potential arguments to substitute.=
 In
> this case, I propose we choose a position to use when the function is use=
d
> in a pipe and, then, create function aliases with different positions.
>
This doesn't strike you as massively over-engineered (and magic)
compared to letting the caller explicitly specify position?

Moreover, it only "solves" the argument ordering problem by replacing
it with a function alias selection problem.

-Sara