ESNext Proposal: The Pipeline Operator

The pipeline operator is essentially a useful syntactic sugar on a function call with a single argument. In other words, sqrt(64) is equivalent to 64 |> sqrt.

This allows for greater readability when chaining several functions together.

With the Pipeline Operator, one could rewrite this …

let result = exclaim(capitalize(doubleSay("hello")));

… to this (think Unix pipes!):

let result = "hello"
  |> doubleSay
  |> capitalize
  |> exclaim;

The proposal also caters for functions with multiple arguments with arrow functions or partial application.

The proposal is currently Stage 1

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