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Flow on June 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interesting Swift Features

My problem with most overloaded operators is that they too often have no sensible name.

When I talk to myself while coding, I have no name to say out loud.

I have nothing but a picture, when I try to remember the operator.

JadeNB on June 24, 2014 [–]

While the names may or may not work for you, this has been considered:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7746894/are-there-pronoun...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3242361/haskell-how-is-pr...

I got to this by Googling for the 'fish' operator, to which I vaguely remembered seeing a reference:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/c262b/the_fish_oper...

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