Comment by nazgul17
13 hours ago
No, the complaint is that "the syntax is not intuitive even knowing the simpler forms of redirection": this one isn't a competition of them, but rather an ad-hoc one.
I know about manuals, and I have known this specific syntax for half of my life.
Arrow functions etc are mechanisms in the language. A template you can build upon. This one is just one special operator. Learn it and use it, but it will serve no other purpose in your brain. It won't make anything easier to understand. It won't help you decipher other code. It won't help you draw connections.
> the syntax is not intuitive even knowing the simpler forms of redirection
The MDN page for arrow functions in JS has, I shit you not, 7 variations on the syntax. And your complaint is these are not intuitively similar enough?
call > output
call 2>&1
call > output 2> error
call 1> output 2> error
Give me a fucking break.