Note that the pipe operator is the rejected tacit pipes from TC-39. TC-39 made the (IMO) wrong choice of what they call hack style pipes (with a mandatory token

Note that the pipe operator is the rejected tacit pipes from TC-39. TC-39 made the (IMO) wrong choice of what they call hack style pipes (with a mandatory token) where instead of the pipe being a simple way to call unary functions. Civet seems to have picked the better pipes.