Tobias Petry

The promised backwards compatability was never a real feature. You can still get name clashes with existing methods. So its a new feature promising something that will never happen. It got rejected for good reasons.

I could have used it multiple times for array transformations. But the RFC still built on really ancient PHP behaviour (mapping functions as strings) and should be redone by fosucing only on modern syntax:

• closures and short closure: |> fn($x) => array_filter($x, fn($v) => $v != 'O')
• first class callable syntax: |> str_split(...)