This is great! Hat tip to PHP. I first came across pipes in Elixir and have ever since missed it in every other language. Two observations:

- pipes make you realize how much song and dance you do for something quite simple. Nesting, interstitial variables, etc all obscuring what is in effect and very orderly set of operations.

- pipes really do have to be a first class operator of the language. I’ve tried using some pipe-like syntactic sugar in languages without pipes and while it does the job, a lot of elegance and simplicity is lost. It feels like you are using a roundabout thing and thus, in the end, doesn’t really achieve the same level of simplicity. Things can get very deranged if you are using a language in a way it wasn’t designed for and even though I love pipes I’ve seen “fake pipes” make things more complicated in languages without them.