I'm fairly new to Clojure, but am not new to bash (and its ilk), so tend to view the threading stuff as Clojure's version of bash's piping syntax (I realise the

I'm fairly new to Clojure, but am not new to bash (and its ilk), so tend to view the threading stuff as Clojure's version of bash's piping syntax (I realise they're not the same thing).