In practice pipes actually work in the opposite direction, the one you like: they allow people to break down nested expressions. Pipes allow the language to rep

In practice pipes actually work in the opposite direction, the one you like: they allow people to break down nested expressions. Pipes allow the language to report granular line numbers and you can do error handling in them, if it’s functional (not if you need try catch of course). While I’ve been on the team pushing for pipes and for the Hack variant, I do appreciate that there are many instances where giving an expression a name is helpful. This is a tool that comes with great responsibility. My hope is that people will learn how to use it. It’s worth it imho the added language complexity.