Kotlin – programming language targeting the JVM and JavaScript

Re:Kotlin – programming language targeting the JVM and JavaS... by frowaway001 on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @11:13AM (#8762774)

Which is kind of funny, because they are still playing catch-up with Scala.

(That's perfectly fine on its own, but doing the usual Scala-bashing at the same time as copying most of the language varbatim doesn't make the Kotlin team look any better.)

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Re:Kotlin – programming language targeting the JVM and JavaS... by vorg on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:44PM (#8765182)

They've stated their decision not to copy certain features such as rampant operator overloading. Is this what you mean by "Scala-bashing"?

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Re:Kotlin – programming language targeting the JVM and JavaS... by frowaway001 on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @07:03PM (#8765262)

No. Scala has neither operator overloading nor any kind of rampant form of it.

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Re:Kotlin – programming language targeting the JVM and JavaS... by vorg on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @08:04PM (#8765476)

In Scala you can define stuff like <*/+-> to mean anything you want. Are you perhaps arguing over my choice of words to describe this phenomena?

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Re:Kotlin – programming language targeting the JVM and JavaS... by frowaway001 on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @08:07PM (#8765492)

Yes. It's neither an operator nor are you overloading anything.

The whole point is that everything is just a bog-standard method and infix notation is a orthogonal notion, separate from a method's name.

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