Andrew, "pipe improvements" are common proposals to the mailing list that are always rejected. Please search for previous discussions on the topic for more information.
*José Valim* www.plataformatec.com.br Skype: jv.ptec Founder and Director of R&D On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 9:01 AM, <and...@paypip.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I see a lot of libraries try to allow piping to the first parameter by > default, but some don't support this easily. > > I propose the following syntax to remedy this where it's needed to pipe to > a specific parameter: > > 1) Normal pipe clearly works the same: > > %{} |> SomeCode.function(other_params) === SomeCode.function(%{}, > other_params) > > 2) The number of > dictates the position of the function we want to pipe > into: > > %{} |>> SomeCode.function("param1") === SomeCode.function("param1", %{}) > > 3) We could also supply opts and other params: > > %{} |>> SomeCode.function("param1", %{opts_are_param_3: true}) === > SomeCode.function("param1", %{}, %{opts_are_param_3: true}) > > 4) We can move to any specific param we want with more arrows, maybe limit > it to 4, say to avoid it becoming ridiculous. > > %{} |>>> SomeCode.function("param1", %{this_is_param_2: true}) === > SomeCode.function("param1", %{this_is_param_2: true}, %{}) > > Thoughts? Would other people find this useful in some situations? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/elixir-lang-core/2f2e23c7-bbbc-4c20-b177- > 95dea8628752%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/2f2e23c7-bbbc-4c20-b177-95dea8628752%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4%2BK-aLAB%2BF8_oWYd9mdSgEDZMCmubdmAMwnAS1pp4%3DZ_A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.