Scalaz pipe operator connected with a list method

Question

I am a newbie to Scala, but I have some experience in using OCaml. I am thinking to adopt the pipe operator defined in Scalaz in the follo

Answer 1

You need to pass the "thrush" combinator a function, so the following works:

"asdf" |> length2 |> (_.length)

If you want to insert line breaks, put the operator at the end of the line:

"asdf" |>
length2 |>
(_.length)

or the following is also valid:

"asdf"
.|> (length2)
.|> (_.length)

Answer 2

Since Scala 2.13, a pipe method is provided by the Scala standard library:

scala 2.13.3> import scala.util.chaining._

scala 2.13.3> "asdf".pipe(length2).pipe(_.length)
val res2: Int = 1

To use the same method in Scala 2.11 or 2.12, add scala-collection-compat as a dependency.