Piping data through arbitrary functions in Clojure

Question

I know that the -> form can be used to pass the results of one function result to another:

(f1 (f2 (f3 x))) 
(-> x f3 f2 f1) ; equivalent          


        

Answer 1

I must admit I'm really new to clojure and I might be missing the point here completely, but can't this just be done using comp and apply?

user> (defn fn1 [x] (+ 2 x))
user> (defn fn2 [x] (/ x 3))
user> (defn fn3 [x] (* 1.2 x))
user> (defn pipe [initial-data my-functions] ((apply comp my-functions) initial-data))
user> (pipe 2 [fn1 fn2 fn3])
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