Pick your battles, there's absolutely no reason to confuse the issue of adding a pipe with the issue of an existing feature the cascade.
The idea of the pipe came to me looking at the cascade ... (is very little for me on Smalltalk) And my view WAS I don't like the cascade, because I don't get functional compositions. So to me cascade and pipe where tightly liked.
I don't do battles but healthy discussions. And I LIKE to put it down a bit provocative. Being a bit provocative, if you just touch ideas and not people, the effect is that some noise comes out the number of posts grow, the community gets interested and something moves.
To me this is the good.
Of course, it can happened that some guys misunderstand the intentions and react to a personality that on mail appears different to what it is.
Now.
I did start an implementation of my pipe idea myself !
But others did better, and so fast !
The net result is: 1) Somebody now seem to like this pipe idea. 2) I learned what I can do with the cascade 3) Everybody got not one but more implementations
So no battles here. Just some good discussion, which from the community point of view produces results.
Fabio