Pipe-Syntax?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 21-12-2011 05:51, Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Just looked at index.html of D and got stuck on
>
>      writeln("Hello World, Reloaded");
>
>      // auto type inference and built-in foreach
>      foreach (argc, argv; args)
>      {
>          // Object Oriented Programming
>          auto cl = new CmdLin(argc, argv);
>          // Improved typesafe printf
>          writeln(cl.argnum, cl.suffix, " arg: ", cl.argv);
>          // Automatic or explicit memory management
>          delete cl;
>      }
>
> With the pipe-syntax of shells ( sh, bash, ...) this five lines could be
> written as:
>
>      "Hello World, Piped" | writeln;
>      args | CmdLin | {argnum, suffix, " arg: ", argv} | writeln;
>
> Comments?
>
> -manfred

You could have a look at the pipe template in std.functional. But in 
general, I agree; a sort of piping operator would be very useful in 
algorithmic code. I find myself using the "|>" operator often in F#.

- Alex