Technically to be equivalent you need to wrap the second one in parentheses so you can use ToList() on it. Unfortunately a bit ugly. I'm not sure why they didn'

Technically to be equivalent you need to wrap the second one in parentheses so you can use ToList() on it. Unfortunately a bit ugly. I'm not sure why they didn't add one more keyword to handle pipelining into other functions. Something like "feed", "into", or "pipe". Or just pluck the |> operator from F#.