Hey folks,
I made a tiny macro that lets you assign a piped value to a variable without breaking the flow. For example:

data
|> transform()
|> process()
|> finalize()
|> assign_to(result) # Assign to result variable

or even during the pipeline:

data
|> transform()
|> assign_to(step1)  # Capture without breaking flow
|> process()
|> assign_to(step2)
|> finalize()
|> assign_to(result) # Assign to result variable

Sure, it’s not idiomatic — but we’ve got then/1, tap/1, even throw/1, so I got curious about what assign from pipe could look like.

Had to jump through a few hoops to avoid compiler warnings, but it works smoothly now.

Docs: pipe_assign v1.1.2 — Documentation
Hex.pm: pipe_assign | Hex
Repo:

https://github.com/pertsevds/pipe_assign