Both ! and ? have their history in Erlang, it was a conscious design decision to use those sigils. I've not looked at typed channels at all, but yeah, thats an

Both ! and ? have their history in Erlang, it was a conscious design decision to use those sigils. I've not looked at typed channels at all, but yeah, thats annoying. Scalaz and Shapeless are designed to do crazy type level stuff, taking their inspiration from type/group/set theory. And yes, I agree Scala is the successor to Perl (but I have no problem with that :p )