Abdulla Al Kathiri writes:

 > Thanks for the clarification. Yeah I agree it will look ugly if we
 > use it not as a first argument many times in a row but what if
 > there is one or two functions in the middle that they are not
 > playing along and don’t have teamwork ethics,

Function definitions or lambdas are cheap.

 > 1 -> add(2) -> pow(3, _) equivalent to 1 -> add(_, 2) -> pow(3, _).
 > _ is where your output goes into. _ as a first argument can be omitted.

def rpow(x, y): return pow(y, x)
1 -> add(2) -> rpow(3)

But in many cases it won't be necessary because you will be defining
functions for the pipeline, rather than fitting the pipeline to
preexisting functions.

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