> Deep nesting is hard to read […] Temporary variables are often tedious
I’m a little torn because pipes might be pretty nice, especially for prototype code and small projects. One thing this proposal doesn’t acknowledge is that for production code, deep nesting’s often impractical and often considered an anti-pattern in the first place, so making it easier isn’t a common need or problem to have in my experience. Usually I’m going the other way, having to make it more tedious. Using temporary variables and breaking apart nesting is, far more often than not, necessary in order to do proper error checking, and just to make code readable, commentable, and refactorable, etc. I feel like what we need is not a way to make deep nesting easier to read, it’s a way to make temporary variables less tedious, perhaps while also piping from one function to the next… that would be really helpful in a deeper way than just adding another chaining syntax. Is the syntax is stuck at “|>”? I guess it’s not possible to override bitwise-or (“|”), but “|>” feels maybe a little clunky?
I’m a little torn because pipes might be pretty nice, especially for prototype code and small projects. One thing this proposal doesn’t acknowledge is that for production code, deep nesting’s often impractical and often considered an anti-pattern in the first place, so making it easier isn’t a common need or problem to have in my experience. Usually I’m going the other way, having to make it more tedious. Using temporary variables and breaking apart nesting is, far more often than not, necessary in order to do proper error checking, and just to make code readable, commentable, and refactorable, etc. I feel like what we need is not a way to make deep nesting easier to read, it’s a way to make temporary variables less tedious, perhaps while also piping from one function to the next… that would be really helpful in a deeper way than just adding another chaining syntax. Is the syntax is stuck at “|>”? I guess it’s not possible to override bitwise-or (“|”), but “|>” feels maybe a little clunky?