For people without a functional language background, it makes sense to think of point-free style with an example they understand: Unix pipes. The controlled pr

For people without a functional language background, it makes sense to think of point-free style with an example they understand: Unix pipes. The controlled producer-consumer flow in pipes is a subset of the declarative combinatorics of values in a point-free function composition. Approaching it as an ongoing process that generates values and consumes them at the same pace can make it easier to understand.