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> > On Aug 9, 3:07 am, Viktor Klang <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> ANY word/symbol can be defined to work in a way that is not >> intuitive, it doesn't matter if we call a method "plus" or "+" if >> it's not doing addition, it'll be confusing anyway. >> There are two differences: 1) Full words are obviously less ambiguous than single characters. In other words, it's much more probable to misuse an operator rather than misusing an english word (or set of words). 2) Operators have the precedence thing that is able to confuse a lot of average programmers. There's also the implicit type conversion thing (a real mess in C++) but if I properly understand it is not a problem with Scala. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxf/AkACgkQeDweFqgUGxdBbQCgmbPqN5uM8v0soAABHKySWXJz 0xsAn03pVkUkz1Xj0f3E10jODAYGx5FR =UknX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
