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This will help make code more readable in situations when we have to chain many built-in functions and is a good entrypoint for making pure minimalistic functions a first class citizen in PHP.
With First-class callable syntax available since 8.1, it would now be possible to write it as below, which is much better then string names of functions:
$result = "Hello World" |> htmlentities(...) |> str_split(...) |> fn($x) => array_map(strtoupper(...), $x) |> fn($x) => array_filter($x, fn($v) => $v != 'O');