You know how many languages have a "pipe" operator, either ready or in the making? Like PHP, here, for example: https://laravel-news.com/the-pipe-operator-is-coming-to-php-85

Well, Perl v5.42 (almost) has that too! Check these examples:

$ perl -E 'say "Alexander"->&CORE::substr(1, 3);'
lex

$ perl -E 'say ","->&CORE::join(qw/ 10 20 30 /);'

10,20,30

I believe this would work with any user defined or imported subroutine too, instead of th…