Sounds like a good old foldl may or may not have brightened up your day (with the "functional style" you mentioned) e.g. Pipeline = fun(Functions, Initial) -

Sounds like a good old foldl may or may not have brightened up your day (with the "functional style" you mentioned) e.g. Pipeline = fun(Functions, Initial) -> lists:foldl( fun(Function, Acc) -> Function(Acc) end, Initial, Functions ), Initial = SomeFunc(), Pipeline = [Func0, Func1, Func2, Func3], Result = Pipeline(Pipeline, Initial). At a certain point I grew to not mind the punctuations `; , .` I often miss language itself given how verbose things are in elixir by comparison. The language ecosystem is pretty good with LFE for the Lispers https://lfe.io/ https://lfe.io/ and https://gleam.run/ https://gleam.run/ for the OCaml inclinded.