Re: [RFC] Pipe Operator

Relevant: https://youtu.be/UvD1VjRvGIk On Apr 30, 2016 15:52, "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 29/04/16 20:58, Sara Golemon wrote: > > This is one of my favorites out of HackLang. It's pure syntactic > > sugar, but it goes a long way towards improving readability. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator > > I can see the attraction, but question it's usability in real time code. > It assumes everything has a single linear flow? Once one has branches > handing different results from the various stages it's usability looks > questionable. While one may well be able to break things down with > exceptions handling all of the invalid returns, if one needs to 'break > the flow' to put in an alternate path then what is supposedly a simple > sequence of steps becomes difficult to rework to allow for the change? > Exceptions should be reserved for out of the ordinary events, not > changes in work flow because different paths are equally valid? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >