There isn't much of a point to this because it doesn't change the fundamental ty...

		_csoo on April 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pipeable Ruby - forget about grep / sed / awk / wc... There isn't much of a point to this because it doesn't change the fundamental type of data that is being piped around. You're still dealing with strings or lists of strings. The advantage of something like PowerShell, an OS built on Common Lisp, or SmallTalk is that objects can be passed around rather than just strings.