Caleb White has introduced a new RFC to implement a pipe assignment operator in PHP. The proposal introduces the |>= operator, which serves as a compound assignment shorthand for piping a value through a callable and assigning the result back to the same variable.

This new syntax allows for the chaining of multiple operations. To support the proposal, a pull request (PR #22633) has been submitted to the php-src repository, which includes the necessary implementation and a suite of tests.

Following the announcement on the internals mailing list, Tim Düsterhus noted a missing "Abstain" option in the RFC's voting widget, which has since been corrected to align with current PHP RFC templates.