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. :-)
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Larry Garfield
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