pipe

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Sat Aug 25 02:39:17 UTC 2007


> > I need the `|` to avoid parenthesis, and weird hacks ...
>
> Like what?
>
> What do you mean by pipes? Are you refering to some kind of
> streaming like in bash where output can be generated from one
> process and input to another with finite memory? If so, I am not
> sure that is possible in general; objects are not always
> serializable.
>
> What kind of use case do you have in mind?
>
let me elaborate:

a message1 | message2

is equal to:

a message1 message2

and:

a message1: param | message2: param2

is equeal to:

(a message1: param) message2: param2


and as you can see writing code with so-called 'pipes' makes code much cleaner


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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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