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Re:ES7 Proposal: The Pipeline Operator by toni on Sunday December 06, 2015 @03:53PM (#10686545) 

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        |> bounded('age', 1, 100)
        |> format('name', /^[a-z]$/i)
        |> Person.insertIntoDatabase
This reminds me of those "Perl Poetry" code snippets from 2001.
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Re:ES7 Proposal: The Pipeline Operator by mbreese on Sunday December 06, 2015 @03:57PM (#10686566)
Yes, and we all know how that turned out with Perl. I don't think Perl is necessarily a good model for readable code.

This seems to me to be a case of "just because we can, doesn't mean we should."

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Re:ES7 Proposal: The Pipeline Operator by toni on Sunday December 06, 2015 @04:22PM (#10686679)
There are a lot of programmers coming from other functional programming languages to Javascript, bringing a lot of ideas from their own language to "make Javascript better".

On top of that, there are also "transpiler folks": Ruby |> CoffeeScript, C#/F# |> TypeScript, etc...

The classical Javascript programmer might be the last of a dying breed.

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