Yeah, R (tidyverse) has `.` as such a placeholder. It is useful but indeed I find the syntax off, though I find the syntax off even without it, anyway. I would

Yeah, R (tidyverse) has `.` as such a placeholder. It is useful but indeed I find the syntax off, though I find the syntax off even without it, anyway. I would rather define pipes as compositions of functions, which are pretty unambiguous in terms of what arguments they get, and then apply these to whatever i want.