The JavaScript Pipeline Operator

Post by AdieuToLogic » Sat, Nov 10, 2018, 6:50 AM UTC

yanis_t wrote: post #25

AdieuToLogic wrote: post #24

FWIW, several language communities call this "the Thrush combinator"[0]. Armed with that term, searching the web for background/info/theory on this topic will be easier. 0 - https://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/09/thrush-combinator-in-...

Thanks! Sounds a bit too scientific to my ear but good to know

  Object.prototype.pipeTo = function (functor) {
    return functor (this);
    };

  function inc (input) { return input + 1; }

  // this will write out "2" to the console log
  new Number (1).pipeTo (inc).pipeTo (console.log);

Post by icholy » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 6:06 PM UTC

_uhtu wrote: post #32

icholy wrote: post #4

ES6 was needed, but I think js should hit the breaks for new language features for a while.

I disagree. ES6 made JS much more palatable but it's still behind most modern languages in terms of number of features and in velocity of new features getting introduced. Javascript has actually been extremely slow to get new features compared to other languages. Since ES6 (3 years ago), the only major, mainstream feature that has been added to JS has been async functions, which are awesome, but in that time Python (…