Adventures in Scala
Searching for Scala Operator Overloading
Chalk up one more downside to operator overloading in Scala (and, I presume other languages)... you can't search the interwebs for more information on operators. Google, for example, pretty much ignores punctuation characters.
Let's say you see some Scala code out there like "parallelCoordinator !? ProcessEnd". What does that '!?' mean?
Related, what does '_*' mean in 'x:_*'?
Ouch, Google doesn't know! It's so last millenium -- guess I'll have to do actual linear documentation reading or something.
Hmmm. if you ever need to create a text-based encoding that's "blind" to Google (circa 2007), you could use punctuation characters only. Morse code, anyone? . . . _ _ _ . . .
Let's say you see some Scala code out there like "parallelCoordinator !? ProcessEnd". What does that '!?' mean?
Related, what does '_*' mean in 'x:_*'?
Ouch, Google doesn't know! It's so last millenium -- guess I'll have to do actual linear documentation reading or something.
Hmmm. if you ever need to create a text-based encoding that's "blind" to Google (circa 2007), you could use punctuation characters only. Morse code, anyone? . . . _ _ _ . . .
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