[hiq]

I agree with this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759814 that this pollutes current scope, which is especially bad if scoping is not that narrow (the case in Python where if-branches do not define their own scope, I don´t know for Ruby).

Another problem of having different names for each step is that you can no longer quickly comment out a single step to try things out, which you can if you either have the pipeline or a single variable name.