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Crell
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| Which... gives us mostly the same thing as the long-discussed scalar methods! Only pipes are more flexible as you can use any function on the right-side, not just those that have been blessed by the language designers as methods. | ||
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| At this point, pipe comes very close to being "extension functions", a feature of Kotlin and C# that allows writing functions that look like methods on an object, but are actually just stand-alone functions. It's spelled a bit differently (`|` instead of `-`), but it's 75% of the way there, for free. | ||
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It would be nice to add a subheader here if possible. Wdyt?
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Eh, any one of these is somewhat arbitrary. They're an increasing scale of cool implications. I'd say put a 3rd level header on all of them, or on none of them. I lean none, but can do either.
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Assorted updates made. I didn't mess with the date yet; I figure Roman can do that once whenever it's ready to go live. |
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At Roman's request... This is equal parts RFC summary and background history.
I left out the divisive question of going with Elixir-style pipes, mostly for length. If folks feel it would add to the story I can include that, but I fear it may detract from the rah-rah aspect that I am trying to go for here.
I've put the date a few days out to allow for editing time, but of course re-date it as appropriate.