Nitpick of the nitpick: name shadowing is one of the most important QOL improvements a functional language can add. The pipe operator can alleviate some of the

Nitpick of the nitpick: name shadowing is one of the most important QOL improvements a functional language can add. The pipe operator can alleviate some of the pain of lack of shadowing, but sometimes you really do want to have a chain of transformations to a value that don't fit well as a pipe, such as when there's more than one intermediate value being used in parallel. In those situations, forcing programmers to give each intermediate value a new name each time is pointless overhead and doesn't actually improve "purity" in any meaningful way.