and kudos also belong to the people whove been heavily championing and bikeshedding the proposal on behalf of the rest of us for the last 8 years - which i just discovered is really nicely documented in the repo: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator/blob/main...

there's usually a ton of nuance behind the syntax considerations and i usually find that the people on tc39 care way more than i do about the things i never think about until its too late. peeking into their discussions is often very enlightening... and a reminder of how hard it is to do language design by committee and at scale.