PHP 8.5 adds |>

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If I’m reading that page correctly, the right-hand side only allows for functions expecting a single argument whereas in Elixir the left-hand side becomes the value of the first argument on the right-hand side. My understanding comes from this line in the page linked:

The pipe operator, spelled |> , is deceptively simple. It takes the value on its left side and passes it as the single argument to a function (or in PHP’s case, callable ) on its right side

All of their examples seem to support this:

$string = 'something GoesHERE';

$newString = match ($format) {
    'snake_case' => $string
        |> splitString(...)
        |> fn($x) => implode('_', $x)
        |> strtolower(...),
    'lowerCamel' => $string
        |> splitString(...),
        |> fn($x) => array_map(ucfirst(...), $x)
        |> fn($x) => implode('', $x)
        |> lcfirst(...),
    // Other case options here.
};

There’s some syntax in that example I’m not familiar with (last time I did any serious PHP was in 2007), but my guess is that would be the difference.

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