With the trend being against global functions, I'm hesitant to add this. Especially with such a generic name. 🤔 It's a good idea though. I wonder if there's a better solution?

This feels to me like the collect() helper, which is used a lot and generally people have no issue with, a directive was my first idea, but you wouldn't be able to have chaining

It is only a one-liner though, so maybe it would be enough to just add it to the docs and people can add it to their projects if they need it

I would like this helper a lot, but do see Jasons point.

It may be possible or nice having more helper functions. So what about a statamic_FUNCTION naming.

In this case:

statamic_modify()

Still global, but less generic.

I've added a PR to the docs: statamic/docs#290

I think this would be a nice add. Especially since it’s SO generic outside of the “modifier” namespace that any other global function would probably a noun attached. Eg “modifySomething”.

@jackmcdade I agree with your reasoning here. But do you feel the same way about tag() in #2724? I could definitely see people using their own tag() for other things. If we have to come up with another convention for that one, we might want to apply it to this one.

Gonna hold off on this for now and suggest devs plop it in their own helpers file. Thanks!