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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Pipe Operator
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 17/05/2016 11:55, Jesse Schalken wrote:
> $id = $id
>     |> StringList::decode($$)
>     |> array_replace($$, $replace)
>     |> StringList::encode($$);

To reiterate my comments from earlier in the thread, I think the "$id = 
$id" looks really weird here, and spoils the step-by-step layout - and, 
in this case, the symmetry.

I would like to be able to write it as:

$id
     |> StringList::decode($$)
     |> array_replace($$, $replace)
     |> StringList::encode($$)
     |>= $id;

Or just:

$id
     |> StringList::decode($$)
     |> array_replace($$, $replace)
     |> StringList::encode($$)
     |> $id;


Sara, what do you think of this tweak, and my subsequent suggestion that 
the pipe should only be usable as a *statement*, not an *expression*?

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]