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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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