On 4-Sep-07, at 6:20 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Göran" == Göran Krampe goran@krampe.se writes:
Göran> BUT... pipe? Come on - IMHO this is not even solving a *real* problem - Göran> just giving us some syntactic sugar - and I generally dislike sugar in Göran> languages. I think it will just create more problems than it will ever Göran> "solve". I mean, what problem is it actually "solving"? Removing some Göran> parenthesis? Is it really worth throwing away compatibility for that?
Hear Hear. My point as well.
I'm of a similar opinion.
They're not pipes. It's a pointless bit of syntactic flummery (and not even saving any keystrokes!) that accesses no new semantics and actually looks *worse* than the thing it is supposed to improve. It is nothing whatsoever to do with functional programming. Daft.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful random insult:- One clown short of a circus.