New package: Chainables v0.1.0

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• Registering package: Chainables
• Repository: https://github.com/TyronCameron/Chainables.jl
• Created by: @TyronCameron
• Version: v0.1.0
• Commit: d890018a2841ee90fa052992bc7cbfdf0bdd9f1e
• Reviewed by: @TyronCameron
• Reference: Register pkg TyronCameron/Chainables.jl#3 (comment)
• Description: Flip those function calls upside down so that @chain is even nicer!
• Release notes:

Added @chainable to the public interface.

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[goerz]

The name similarity for this is a false positive, and I can override it, but (without having looked at in in any detail) I might be a little bit concerned about potential name clashes, type piracy, or similar issues, in relation to existing packages. I’m not even quite sure how to evaluate these concerns for macros… Are these features that would potentially better contributed to the existing packages? Is this more of a “personal utility” collection (which shouldn’t go in the General registry)? It might be good to invite some community feedback on this package by posting on Discourse or Slack before continuing with the registration

[TyronCameron]

Fair point -- thanks for the suggestion. I've opened a thread on Discourse to gather some community feedback before continuing with registration:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seeking-feedback-on-chainables-before-registering-it/136175

[TyronCameron]

Feedback (here and on Discourse) is very welcome!

On the technical side: the macros just adjust the order of the arguments going in so shouldn't cause type piracy.

I'm not aware of another package that does a similar thing (except perhaps DataFramesMeta which provides macro versions of DataFrame functions).