Expressions pipe operator

GDevelop general Feature requests
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Often when writing expressions, specifically when working with strings, expressions can get quite lengthy and confusing to read, making it hell to write and change later on. My solution, a “pipe operator” that would pass in the evaluated expression on the left side as the first parameter of the one on the right side.
For example, if -> is that pipe operator, those expressions would be equivalent:
ToString(Variable(MyNumber)) and Variable(MyNumber)->ToString()

This allows to make some stuff way more readable:

StrRepeat(ToLowerCase(SubStr("MySuperDuperString", 0, 3)), 3) could become SubStr("MySuperDuperString", 0, 3)->ToLowerCase()->StrRepeat(3)

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I think is a good idea like in PHP Object oriented.

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Indeed this could also help make object oriented extensions

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Well now I have a problem I have multiple feature requests like this one that got a few likes but I don’t know if it is enough to continue to the next step and if the next step should be porting it to github or beginning to write an implementation