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That actually sounds like you encountered code that shouldn't have been or you had people using Scalaz (which has weird operators taken from Haskell, looking at

• tormeh 12y ago
  Scalaz is evil. Some of the operators are even non-ASCII. Anyway, scala needs less weird operators, not more. Looking at you, parser combinator library.
• throwawuy222 12y ago
  For those who don't understand: Scalaz is an additional layer of syntax and tricks on top of what is already there. It seems to have quite a lot of power! implicit val option = new Traverse[Option] with MonadPlus[Option] { def point[A](a: => A) = Some(a) def bind[A, B](fa: Option[A])(f: A => Option[B]): Option[B] = fa flatMap f override def map[A, B](fa: Option[A])(f: A => B): Option[B] = fa map f def traverseImpl[F[_], A, B](fa: Option[A])(f: A => F[B])(implicit F: Applicative[F]) = fa map (a => F.map(f(a))(Some(_): Option[B])) getOrElse F.point(None) def empty[A]: Option[A] = None def plus[A](a: Option[A], b: => Option[A]) = a orElse b def foldR[A, B](fa: Option[A], z: B)(f: (A) => (=> B) => B): B = fa match { case Some(a) => f(a)(z) case None => z } } Excerpt from https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz#type-class-instance-definition https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz#type-class-instance-definit....
  • justthistime_ 12y ago
    Looks pretty readable and reasonable.
    • lmm 12y ago
      That part is fine. The trouble with Scalaz is it adds a bunch of extra operators (that is, methods - the distinction doesn't exist in Scala) like |+|, \*> and >=>.