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Oh yeah, I think `()` for indexing like in Scala is fine too.

Owen Nelson

@theomn

Sep 28, 2021

I love that collection access in scala looks like a function call like that.

Aly

@Fish_CTO

Sep 28, 2021

Me too :) I like Scala a lot because of how it handled `apply` and `update` (and even more because of how library authors know not to make a trait govern syntax sugar)

how does Scala solve for making indexable user collections anyways?

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Sep 28, 2021

I think the call operator is overloadable?

oh god

Everything is overloadble.

Aly

@Fish_CTO

Sep 28, 2021

In Scala? Yeah, you can define any operator you want. Thankfully unlike C++ there's an emphasis on purity and clarity (and unclear operators often get deprecated, like /: and :\ [nobody had any clue what those did])

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Sep 28, 2021

Yeah, as an outsider things seem a bit nicer in Scala land since the move away from libraries like ScalaZ (which used far more operators than healthy), towards Cats which seems more restrained and careful in its choices of operators…