On Mon, Feb 10, 2025, at 4:04 AM, Tim Düsterhus wrote: > Hi > > Am 2025-02-07 05:57, schrieb Larry Garfield: >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v3 > > After also having taken a look at the implementation and then the > updated “Precedence” section, I'd like to argue in favor of moving `|>` > to have a higher precedence than the comparison operators (i.e. between > string concatenation and `<`). This would mean that `|>` has higher > precedence than `??`, but looking at the following examples, that > appears to be the more useful default anyways. > > I'm rather interested in handling a `null` pipe result: > > $user = $request->get('id') > |> $database->fetchUser(...) > ?? new GuestUser(); > > Than handling a null callback (using the RFC example, because I can't > even think of a real-world use-case): > > $res1 = 5 > |> $null_func ?? defaultFunc(...); > > To give some more examples of what would be possible without parentheses > then: > > $containsNotOnlyZero = $someString > |> fn ($str) => str_replace('0', '', $str) > |> strlen(...) > > 0; > > Which is not particularly pretty, but appears to be more useful than > either passing a boolean into a single-argument function or piping into > a boolean (which would error). > > Best regards > Tim Düsterhus
I have updated the patch and RFC accordingly. I think you're right, it does make a bit more sense this way. --Larry Garfield
