# Why not
## Lodash
`_.flow(b,c,d)(a)` // left to right
`_.compose(d,c,b)(a)` // right to left
`_.flowRight(d,c,b)(a)` // right to left
`_.backflow(d,c,b)(a)` // right to left
## RamdaJS `_.pipe(b,c,d)(a)` // left to right
# But why are we inventing so many ways of doing forward, backward function application and composition.
Aside: I've never found an application of lodash `_.chain` that couldn't be expressed in a better way.
Doesn't seem fair to shut down this proposal because you happen to write and work with imperative code, a style that Javascript and modern abstractions are moving away from.
In fact, the Javascript hack to get a pipeline-like style is to make some opaque wrapper object that you can chain method calls onto like `_.chain(a).b().c().d().value()` in Lodash, when all you wanted was a chain of function application.
`|>`, `<|`, composition operators, and friends would all be welcome complements to the Javascript code bases I've worked with in the last few years.