Recently introduced pipeline operator is great, but together with
assignment operator it will lead to mixing top-to-bottom and
bottom-to-top code reading directions and vertigo.
To reduce this problem i'd like to discuss the idea of left to right
assignment operator. The draft rfc can be found here
https://github.com/vadimonus/php-rfc-pipeline-assignment/blob/main/rfc.md
, there is the part, that describes problem.
It currently has one question (can we use |> also for assignment?), that
would be better to discuss before 8.5 release, to avoid later breaking
changes.
If someone like the idea, i need wiki rfc creation rights to create rfc.
I do not think it would be to hard to implement it, as it is just
another syntax for existing operator, and should lead to exactly same
bytecode. I could try to implement for 8.6 release (not sure it is
possible to implement it in 8.5 as it is already in alpha, but if it is
possible, maybe someone will decide to quickly implement it for 8.5).
- [PHP-DEV] Proposal. Pipeline assignment operator Vadim Dvorovenko
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