Re: [RFC] Pre-draft for PipeOp v2

Hi! > After discussion with Levi and others who suggested a simpler > approach, I'd like to offer > https://github.com/php/php-src/compare/master...sgolemon:pipe2 > as an > alternate possibility. I am still feeling it is a bit weird to do things that way, but other than that (which is just my personal issue) I do not see any problems in this proposal. With magic weird $$ thing gone, it seems to be straightforward and mostly intuitive. So while I am not feeling this is a must, I think it may be nice to have it. It'd be also nice then if we could have some syntax that allowed us to refer to functions/methods as callables - mostly for the benefit of the code readers and IDEs. I.e. you can do "hello" |> "strtoupper" and it's fine but it is not at all intuitive what you're doing sending one string into another. Same with "hello" |> [$this, 'bar']. Now, if we could do something like this: "hello" |> &{strtoupper} "hello" |> &{$this->bar} (yes I know the syntax is ugly, I hope you get the idea though to have a syntax for this) then you could have better readability, easier IDE autocompletion and other benefits. Not for this RFC, clearly, but just putting it out there so I don't forget. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com