Put This in Your Pipe(line)

We know that Elixir programming is about transforming state, and |> operator plays the starring role in making that happen. But sometimes you can’t just chain two named functions together—the output of one doesn’t match the first parameter of the next. Until I discovered this trick, I had to break the pipeline and assert the interim result to a local variable, or write a private function that massaged the value into the right format.

This video shows you some ways of overcoming this. It’s probably not new, but I haven’t seen the technique in code that I’ve read.