That's not more readable, you're just switching a few characters. Any language that has Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS) [1] lets you replace wrapped functi

That's not more readable, you're just switching a few characters. Any language that has Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS) [1] lets you replace wrapped function calls with linear calls like that, it's clearly easier to read, and much easier to write, specially when you consider programmers' tooling (in case it's not obvious why: you can type the name of a symbol and a '.' and the IDE shows you the available functions... this works also for free functions that take the symbol's type as the first argument as well.... that could work for the pipe operator as well, of course, that's why I said that the two things are basically equivalent, just with slightly different notation). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax