This has been proposed before, and it was rejected then as well. You're only saving a few characters, and it obfuscates that two completely different things are happening (assignment, function calling).
On Friday, May 19, 2017 at 1:27:29 PM UTC-4, OvermindDL1 wrote: > > Actually that specific example would not work now that I think of it, but > you could do it via a bit more macro-work. > > > On Friday, May 19, 2017 at 11:26:19 AM UTC-6, OvermindDL1 wrote: >> >> You could easily make that into a library (in fact similar ones already >> exist, though not for 'just' that feature). >> >> Just define a new operator, say `<|>` since you are piping 'both ways' >> I'd say as a macro, then you can do it, it might even be as simple as >> (untested): >> ```elixir >> defmacro left <|> right do >> quote do >> unquote(left) = unquote(left) |> unquote(right) >> end >> end >> ``` >> Then you could do: >> ```elixir >> conn >> <|> put_assign(:blah, :bloop) >> |> more_stuff() >> |> render(:index) >> ``` >> or so. Easily done as a library though, or just add it to your own >> project and require it where you want. >> >> >> >> On Friday, May 19, 2017 at 11:06:28 AM UTC-6, Mario Campa wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm new to Elixir, so forgive me if this idea sounds silly. >>> >>> I keep repeating this pattern in multiple controllers: >>> >>> conn = Plug.Conn.put_session(conn, :foo, bar) >>> >>> or >>> >>> conn = conn |> Plug.Conn.put_session(:foo, bar) >>> >>> >>> IMO it would be cool to have a shorter version to this where I can pipe >>> and assign like this: >>> >>> conn |>= Plug.Conn.put_session(:foo, bar) >>> >>> >>> Similar to >>> >>> a = a + 2 >>> # or >>> a += 2 >>> >>> >>> -- 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/14a96e51-b032-4907-903a-7d35df33b6e8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
