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Feature #14392

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Pipe operator

Added by dsferreira (Daniel Ferreira) almost 7 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:85050]

Description

I would like to see implemented in ruby a pipe operator as we have in elixir.

An example of application I have in mind is this:

class Foo

  def bar(var)
    puts “Hello #{var}!”
  end |> private
  
  def baz(arg)
    bar(arg)
  end 
 
end

foo = Foo.new
foo.baz("Fred") # => "Hello Fred!"

It can also help simplify method chains:

class Secret

  def initialise(user, password)
    @user = user
    @password = password
  end

  def second_pass(encrypted_string)
    encrypted_string.chain_4.chain_5.chain_6
  end |> private

  ##
  #  Super encryption

  def super_encryption
    @password.chain_1.chain_2.chain_3
      |> second_pass
  end |> public

end

And also simplify codes like this:

class Foo

  def bar(*args)
    baz = args.select { |arg| arg =~ /regex/ }.first
    good?(baz)
  end

  public :bar

  def good(arg)
    arg.to_s.size > 10
  end
  
  private :good

end

to become:

class Foo

  ##
  # Bar public method.

  def bar(*args)
    args.select { |arg| arg =~ /regex/ }.first
      |> good?
  end |> public

  def good(arg)
    arg.to_s.size > 10
  end |> private

end

Lots of local variables would be saved and I would expect some performance improvements with that.

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Related to Ruby master - Feature #15799: pipeline operatorClosedActions
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