For those who don't know that's the thread macro and IMHO it should be a bigger selling point of the language. I think of it like the Unix pipe operator (i.e.

For those who don't know that's the thread macro and IMHO it should be a bigger selling point of the language. I think of it like the Unix pipe operator (i.e. "ls | grep X") but for programming. https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/-> https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/-> edit: I usually pretty-print it, too: (-> g ;; input value (partial a) ;; runs as (partial g a), hands off A (comp f) ;; runs as (comp A f), hands off B (map x)) ;; runs as (map B x), this returns a value or (-> 5 (< 10)) ;; runs as (< 5 10) => true with a little tom-foolery (lambda functions) you can have the incoming value land anywhere in the function's argument list