[drakythe]

I don't disagree with you. I had trouble reading the examples at first. But what immediately struck me is this syntax is pretty much identical to chaining object methods that return values.

  $result = $obj->query($sqlQuery)->fetchAll()[$key]

so while the syntax is not my favorite, it at least maintains consistency between method chaining and now function chaining (by pipe).

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

Speaking of query builders, we no longer have to guess whether it's mutating the underlying query object or cloning it with each operation. That's another big win for pipe IMO.