Yeah, I've always heard this called method chaining. It's widespread in C#, particularly with Linq (which was explicitly designed to leverage it). I've only ev

Yeah, I've always heard this called method chaining. It's widespread in C#, particularly with Linq (which was explicitly designed to leverage it). I've only ever heard the term 'pipelining' in reference to GPUs, or as an abstract umbrella term for moving data around.