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Re:Ask HN: Why do people have a hatred for Scala? by M8 on Friday April 17, 2015 @08:53AM (#9393953)
> crazy overuse of operator overloading

F# might not be the best place to go then:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2210854/can-you-define-yo...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233204.aspx

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Re:Ask HN: Why do people have a hatred for Scala? by lmm on Friday April 17, 2015 @10:37AM (#9394535)
Most languages have similar capabilities. E.g. in Java you can define a method called ★★★ if you want (edit: this specific example doesn't seem to work, but certainly non-ascii method names are possible). The difference is cultural; Java libraries generally wouldn't define such a method, while certain Scala libraries might.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do people have a hatred for Scala? by M8 on Friday April 17, 2015 @11:45AM (#9395045)
Example in the wild:

https://bitbucket.org/fparsec/main/src/c234349e7b738e09a1b9e...

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Re:Ask HN: Why do people have a hatred for Scala? by lmm on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @08:44AM (#9413609)
FParsec is a port of a Haskell library, so not really reflective of F# culture.
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