I just saw u/SaraMG‘s great pipe operator RFC. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator
I believe it to be one of the finest additions to PHP in the last few years. Why didn’t it make it into the language?

Never going to happen… You could almost call it…
… a pipe dream.
You could always roll your own:
Pure brainfuck code right there, respect

I know I’m going to see this in production one day, and when that time comes I will curse your name.
I love it

There was another proposal this year: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v2. Here’s the mailing list discussion on it: https://externals.io/message/109734.

Looks like this is the discussion for Sara’s 2016 proposal: https://externals.io/message/94599.
Please no. This is horrible.
Might wanna give elixir a try

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