[abecedarius]

Better yet, compare

    f = glork_to_floob (crumb_to_glork c)

versus

    f = floob_of_glork (glork_of_crumb c)

and picture the first style inside a more complex function with more constructors/conversions.

[tome]

Yes, even better example, thanks! In Haskell you get

    f = floob_of_glork . glork_of_crumb . crumb_of_zing

which is much better than

    f = glork_to_floob . crumb_to_glork . zing_to_crumb

[nequo]

Interesting. The pipe operator is more idiomatic in OCaml where this would be

  crumb_of_zing x |> glork_of_crumb |> floob_of_glork

versus

  zing_to_crumb x |> crumb_to_glork |> glork_to_floob

[abecedarius]

Yeah, fair. Forth especially really commits to that left-to-right order in its general style -- I like it when a language and its culture are conscious about readability in this way.

[tome]

It is interesting that the "of" style is common in Ocaml where the left-to-right style is common. They seem to clash!

I would like to know what it's like to work in a fully left-to-right language, for example, to define `my_floob`:

      let my_crumb |> zing_to_crumb |> crumb_to_glork |> glork_to_floob = my_floob

[nequo]

In addition to Forth, R can do this too:

  x |> zing_to_crumb() |> crumb_to_glork() |> glork_to_floob() -> my_floob

But it is not idiomatic.