[imglorp]

I think it would make sense for chained operations in a mental data flow sense.

    makejunk().filter().last(4) => fourthings

feels better than

    fourthings = makejunk().filter().last(4)

[syspec]

Not to me, and other people who use Ruby sparingly

[Someone]

I’m not sure. In shell, I think

  makejunk | grep foo | tail -4 > fourthings

is more popular than

  > fourthings makejunk | grep foo | tail -4

Having said that, I don’t understand why you would add this, but then, I don’t understand the popularity of ruby or other languages that think adding alternative ways to do things most of the time is a good thing.

[Izkata]

In shell outside of file manipulation,

  fourthings=$(makejunk | grep foo | tail -4)