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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.

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

Skip R.

@pbducks

Priorities of arrow operators variants · Issue #11210 · scala/bug

just in case you aren't aware: the unicode arrows have been deprecated since 2.13.0 due to precedence issues

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There are different priorities for two variants of arrow operators: $ scala Welcome to Scala 2.12.7 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.8.0_181). Type in expressions for evaluation. Or try :help. sca...

Owen Nelson

@theomn

Can you imagine having semantics change based on how cute you write your scala... That's a yikes from me.

One of my biggest gripes with Scala is weird associativity rules. Especially visible in the difference between right-associative scastie.scala-lang.org/2FbQF10HR2WInU and left-associative scastie.scala-lang.org/h3M3JVwSQu2Ytc Everything is flipped around and it's a mess.

I put parentheses on everything that's not an associative expression by default (i.e. i'll write `5 + (4 * 3)` even though I don't need to) so the other stuff doesn't bother me that much thankfully.

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

wat, are the precedences and associativies hard-coded?