PHP 8.5's pipe operator hits a wall on array code

PHP 8.5 shipped a pipe operator, from Larry Garfield's RFC (approved 33-7). The marketing examples look great: $slug = $title |> trim ( ... ) |> strtolower ( ... ); Reads top to bottom, no nesting, types flow. Anywhere you have a chain of single-input transformations, the operator does what you'd want. The trouble starts when you point it at PHP's array standard library, where real codebases spend most of their time. The naive port A common form-handling task: clean user-submitted tags and sort