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Re:Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript by tinyspacewizard on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @12:44PM (#45518111)
There is more than one proposal; the F#-style one doesn't have the (weird) placeholder syntax.

> You can still make it work by adding it to the prototype

This is exactly what we want to avoid!

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Re:Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript by nonethewiser on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @01:43PM (#45518689)
wrap the object?

Why would you want to avoid that? It's controversial syntactic sugar. Enforcing a convention locally seems ideal.

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Re:Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript by tinyspacewizard on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:24AM (#45524990)
1. Wrapping is more code than using a built-in pipe operator

2. There is a run-time overhead to wrapping

IMO a design goal of programming langauges should be for the most readable code to also be the most performant.

Language features tend to be controversial until they are mainstream.

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