In R (thanks to magrittr) you can now perform operations with a more functional piping syntax via %>%
. This means that instead of coding this:
> as.Date("2014-01-01")
> as.character((sqrt(12)^2)
You could also do this:
> "2014-01-01" %>% as.Date
> 12 %>% sqrt %>% .^2 %>% as.character
To me this is more readable and this extends to use cases beyond the dataframe. Does the python language have support for something similar?