The pipe operator makes it much easier to create home-grown cryptographic hash functions, as everybody used to do in the early 2000s: md5($password) |>

The pipe operator makes it much easier to create home-grown cryptographic hash functions, as everybody used to do in the early 2000s: md5($password) |> sha1(...) |> sha1(...) |> md5(...) |> rot13(...) |> crc32(...)