Re: [RFC] Pipe Operator

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > Whether it's $$ or !# or $0 or any other random symbol doesn't really matter. > Agreed. > Here we have a completely optional syntactic sugar, > that's not nearly as widely useful as OOP or namespaces. > Very few things will be as widely useful as OOP or namespaces, so that comparison is a bit of a red herring. This construct is useful anywhere function call nesting pushes you past a readability threshold. That's not as ubiquitous as OOP as a whole, but it's pretty widespread. As widespread as fluent call chaining, in fact. > The question is whether the added complexity of a new operator, > a new symbol and the new semantics around them both are > worth the benefit of introducing them. > Agreed. There's a cost to every new token and parser rule on the compiler side, and there's a cognitive overhead on the script maintainer side as well. It seems we only disagree in the flexibility provided by better syntax and the ease of using google, stack-overflow, and php.net/manual. > IMHO it's not. > And I'll expect you to vote accordingly. No hard feelings. :) -Sara