Clojure (and I'm sure other lisps and programming languages) have a nice solution to this, the `->` macro ("threading") You'd do something like: (save (tran

Clojure (and I'm sure other lisps and programming languages) have a nice solution to this, the `->` macro ("threading") You'd do something like: (save (transform (fetch))) ;; calls fetch, then transform, then save (-> (fetch) (transform) (save)) Not that the non-threading version was hard to read, but once the function names start to be a bit longer and involve arguments, the threading version tends to be a lot easier to read.