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Re:PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means by bapak on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:24AM (#44794576)
Nothing is really needed, C89 was good enough.

Dots are not the same, nobody wants to use chaining like underscore/lodash allowed because it makes dead code elimination impossible.

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Re:PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means by pjmlp on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:30AM (#44795277)
K&R C was good enough for UNIX System V, why bother with C89.
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Re:PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means by boobsbr on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:14AM (#44795897)
K&R C was the apex, we've just been going downhill since.
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Re:PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means by lioeters on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:47AM (#44799542)
This but unironically.
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