The pipe operator in Elixir also benefits from having the subject of most functions in the standard library as first argument. No need for the % hack operator,

The pipe operator in Elixir also benefits from having the subject of most functions in the standard library as first argument. No need for the % hack operator, so you can just do: "hello world" |> String.split(" ", trim: true) |> Enum.map(&String.upcase/1)