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Everything is overloadble.

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…

Owen Nelson

@theomn

Sep 28, 2021

Never before seen levels of commitment to the bit

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Table of unicode operators in scalaz 6.0.x

Table of unicode operators in scalaz 6.0.x. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Sep 28, 2021

lol this is worse than I remembered

Owen Nelson

@theomn

Sep 28, 2021

It's really bad. Can you even imagine entering codepoints for this nonsense all the time? Someone *wanted that* for some reason.

okay but we should do the last three.

Aly

@Fish_CTO

Sep 28, 2021

the last three (under "Scala") are built-in to Scala, because the Scala team knows what a good operator is

Aly

@Fish_CTO

Sep 28, 2021

although, it does look very ugly, and ligatures do replace them now i think

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Sep 28, 2021

I think they can look nicer when your font supports the extended symbols rather than falling back to other fonts. But yeah, only a few programmer fonts do> I use Pragmata Pro for instance which is expensive, but supports a wide range of Unicode.