Re: [RFC] Pipe Assignment Operator

On Tuesday, July 14th, 2026 at 03:22, Tim Düsterhus <tim@bastelstu.be> wrote: > Thank you. One note regarding “the lowest precedence level, > right-associative”. This is not quite correct. While the assignment > operators have fairly low precedence, they are not the lowest. As an > example, the infamous $foo = bar() or die() pattern relies on > or > having a lower precedence than assignment. This should be corrected. > > The $result = ($x |>= double(...)) |> triple(...); > example also > doesn't showcase precedence, because of the explicit parentheses. Ah, yes. I meant among the symbolic operators but you are correct and I've updated to make this more clear. I removed the explicit parentheses from the example. > Looking at the RFC examples again, I was reminded of this RFC: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/implicit_move_optimisation, which > concerns > itself with optimizing the $foo = func($foo); case. Perhaps it > makes > sense to list this in the references section, because with > |>= this > “in-place” reassignment would become an official pattern. I've added this to the references and discussed it in the Future Scope section. Best, Caleb