alt Hacker NewsI feel languages should just have some kind of sugar or operator for this, in fact in Ocaml the |> operator exists where
<exp> |> <exp2>
<exp2>(<exp>)
For a variadic language you'd need something more involved though. But some kind of syntax can probably be invented in some language.
It's common to write the thrush combinator as a lisp macro. Clojure ships ->, ->>, as->, some->, some->>, cond->, and cond->> out of the box. You can find similar macros for CL[0], Racket[1], and a scheme SRFI[2]. Writing them is a fun exercise in your lisp of choice if you don't have a library available.
[0] https://github.com/dtenny/clj-arrows
[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/threading/index.html
[2] https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-197/srfi-197.html