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0 pointstinyspacewizard7mo ago0 comments

There is more than one proposal; the F#-style one doesn't have the (weird) placeholder syntax.

> You can still make it work by adding it to the prototype

This is exactly what we want to avoid!

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wrap the object?

Why would you want to avoid that? It's controversial syntactic sugar. Enforcing a convention locally seems ideal.

1. Wrapping is more code than using a built-in pipe operator

2. There is a run-time overhead to wrapping

IMO a design goal of programming langauges should be for the most readable code to also be the most performant.

Language features tend to be controversial until they are mainstream.