Re: [RFC] Pipe Operator

On 17/05/2016 11:55, Jesse Schalken wrote:

$id = $id

    |> StringList::decode($$)
    |> array_replace($$, $replace)
    |> StringList::encode($$);

To reiterate my comments from earlier in the thread, I think the "$id = $id" looks really weird here, and spoils the step-by-step layout - and, in this case, the symmetry. I would like to be able to write it as: $id

    |> StringList::decode($$)
    |> array_replace($$, $replace)
    |> StringList::encode($$)
    |>= $id;

Or just: $id

    |> StringList::decode($$)
    |> array_replace($$, $replace)
    |> StringList::encode($$)
    |> $id;

Sara, what do you think of this tweak, and my subsequent suggestion that the pipe should only be usable as a *statement*, not an *expression*? Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]