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To: Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Pipe Operator v2
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a lot of ways in which PHP needs improvement, but right now I
> think inventing more syntax tricks in not one of them. Even in syntax
> department, PHP has areas where we could use improvement (e.g. to name
> named arguments as one) but this one doesn't seem to do much but doing
> the same thing in a shiny new way. Read: less comprehensible for people
> not watching "latest new 20 syntaxes PHP invented in the next version",
> more things to learn to read PHP code, more things to maintain, more
> complexity for the language that once was supposed to be accessible to
> beginners.
> This is the price of all innovation, but sometimes benefits are much
> greater and the price is completely warranted. I do not feel this is the
> case here.
>
I just want to make sure you know that I 100% respect your feelings on
this RFC.  I can't comprehensively argue against them, so I won't try.
I'll only say that I don't expect to see |> in rampant use in the next
two years, maybe not in five.  But that's okay, because that feature
will (I hope) be there for private codebases soon, and public
codebases later, and I believe it will make code more readable.

-Sara