Re: [RFC] Pipe to return

On 2026-01-31 18:52, Vadim Dvorovenko wrote:

Introducing Pipe to return RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe_to_return In short, RFC proposes piping expression result to return to be used together with pipe operator to reduce cognitive load "Hello World" |> strlen <http://www.php.net/strlen>(...) |> return; -- Vadim Dvorovenko

I'm wondering how this would relate to the function composition operator, noted in the follow-up RFC. Basically, would "return" make sense at the end of a function composition chain, and what sense would that be? When $x |> f1(...) |> f2(...) |> f3(...); is equivalent to (f1(...) + f2(...) + f3(...))($x); [Aside: personally I find the suggested order of arguments backwards from every other instance of function composition I've encountered, but I suppose I could learn to live with it. But that's another subject.] and $c = f1(...) + f2(...) + f3(...); is equivalent to $c = fn($x) => ($x |> f1(...) |> f2(...) |> f3(...)); what happens when "f3(...)" is "return"? The intended behaviour is given for the first case but not for the others (not even the fourth, which is still the pipe operator).