> To me, the first is much easier to read, but perhaps my mind has been warped by functional programming languages. Actually, pipable is very similiar to haske

> To me, the first is much easier to read, but perhaps my mind has been warped by functional programming languages. Actually, pipable is very similiar to haskell's `$` function. So a similiar thing is done to improve readability of chaining functions in functional languages as well. > At any rate, the thing that's strange about it is how verbose and hackish everything is. It's obvious the language wasn't designed to do anything like this, so the only way you can incorporate features like this is with unnecessarily obtuse and complex blocks of code. How is the code obtuse and complex? I am using fairly straightforward techniques. I understand that I am working around the lack of perfect capturing for lambdas, but it is not complicated or clever the workaround.