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I think there is merit to the argument that if naming is one of the hard problems, programmers writing that code are having to do a lot of ‘naming’ and that is hard for them. The proposed pipe operation eliminates those names and lets the programmer just use %.

But these variables are rarely the kind of thing it’s hard to name, so it feels like a slightly disingenuous argument.

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Naming is hard because names are useful.

Getting rid of the name moves the hard problem, rather than solve it

Usually that effort should go toward naming functions rather than their results, though, and if the functions have good names, the results don't need them. In this example, `other_function` could have been named `get_user_data`, `new_function` could have been called `extract_user_details`, whatever.

Once you have good function names, which you should generally be spending a lot more effort on than good local variable names, you won't find any value in adding variables like `var foo = get_foo()`.

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