Comment by _jal
4 years ago
They are not fully-aligned goals, and autocomplete should not be given equal consideration on par with human clarity.
If you want nice autocomplete too, that's fine, but if there is a tradeoff, human understanding is the primary concern.
I don't understand why do you think about it this way
C#'s LINQ (really powerful tool similar to SQL) works the same way
look:
var list = new List<int>{1,2,3}
var extracted = list
.............................Where(x => x > 1)
.............................Select(x => $"my number: {x})
.............................ToList();
or
var extarcted =
........................from x in list
........................where x > 1
........................select $"my number: {x};
Technically to be equivalent you need to wrap the second one in parentheses so you can use ToList() on it. Unfortunately a bit ugly. I'm not sure why they didn't add one more keyword to handle pipelining into other functions. Something like "feed", "into", or "pipe". Or just pluck the |> operator from F#.