On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 01/27/2017 01:07 PM, Brent Brinkley wrote:

Suggested structure:

print() <| some_func() <| another_func("Hello")

My first question is what does this look like when print() and some_func() have other parameters? In other words, what would this look like?

print('hello', name, some_func('whatsit', another_func('good-bye')), sep=' .-. ')

The Elixir pipe operator looks pretty close to the suggested style, but the argument order is reversed:

another_func('good-bye') |> some_func('whatsit') |> print('hello', name, sep=' .-. ')

This isn't exactly equivalent to the example though because the result of each call is passed as the first argument to the next function. I think it looks nice when it's the right fit, but it's limited to the first argument.

C Anthony