Why not just make types psuedo-objects?

$myString.trim().replace("w", "h");

Which has the advantage of also offering a clean alternative to the fragmented stdlib.

> Why not just make types psuedo-objects?

With this sort of "just" I could build Paris out of matchsticks

reddalo 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I agree. But in PHP it would probably be like this:

$myString->trim()->replace("w", "h");

	▲	troupo 8 days ago \| parent [-]
		Because pipes don't care about the type your function returns. And you don't need hundreds of methods on each type just in case. You just pipe the result of the previous function to the next one. And those functions can be business logic, or validation, or... Not just object methods

account42 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Because duplicating the stdlib is probably not a good idea.