# How often do you use the |\> operator?

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**Created:** [February 28, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-often-do-you-use-the-operator/56189 "2021-02-28T13:18:10Z")\
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For chains of function calls, I often write two versions of the code: one with `|>` and one without. Then I keep the one that looks most readable. At a guess I’d say I keep `|>` 30% to 50% of the time.

I’ll probably use it more often if/when Julia finally supports the `_` syntax for partial function application, since that would increase the number of cases where `|>` makes the code more readable. (There are packages like Pipe.jl and Chain.jl to help with that but the readability improvement doesn’t always outweigh the cost of an extra dependency.)

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