I've only ever poked a little at Scala so my opinion isn't worth much, but what the OP says about operator overloading gels with my C++ coding experience. Ever

I've only ever poked a little at Scala so my opinion isn't worth much, but what the OP says about operator overloading gels with my C++ coding experience. Everyone LOVES operator overloading when it's their own code doing the overloading. When you start dealing with other people's abuses of OOL, then it gets downright evil.