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by valzam
2017 days ago
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There is none and after having used Elixir for a year going back to Python for anything non-trivial input/output parsing feels really cumbersome now. Other comments have mentioned that functional idioms make code harder to read for devs unfamiliar with the concepts but the pipe operator IMHO has no downsides (I am not even sure what it really has to do with funcational programming, other than that it happens to be used in more functional languages). |
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What it has to do with functional programming is, first, that it's right side operand is a function, and, second, that it's a technique for unrolling the deeply nested function calls common in expression-oriented functional programming without resorting intermediate assignments which are natural in statement-oriented imperative programming but less so for single-user and not independently semantically important values in expression-oriented functional programming.