Yes, but you write a short function/lambda for connecting them. Just like how you have sed/awk, or the many required flags to make any non-trivial operation "ju

Yes, but you write a short function/lambda for connecting them. Just like how you have sed/awk, or the many required flags to make any non-trivial operation "just work". You're not free from the need to specify how to parse the strings just because your whole human readable system is stringly typed.