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PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator
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However, we did get a consolation prize out of it: First Class Callables(the array_values(...) syntax), courtesy Nikita Popov, were by design a "junior", degenerate version of partial function application. This time with a better implementation with lots of hand-holding from Ilija Tovilo and Arnaud Le Blanc, both part of the PHP Foundation dev team, I was able to get it through. I don't think it's immodest to say that the pipe operator has one of the highest "bangs for the buck" of any feature in recent memory, alongside such niceties as constructor property promotion.
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