On: Another Scala rant on HN

[krapp]

   "foo" + 6 + 6

>Should be a compiler-error.

Why? "foo" is already a string, getting "foo66" from that makes perfect sense to me.

6 + "foo" though would be crazy.

[dllthomas → krapp]

Because it makes intent explicit in a way that helps catch errors earlier, and they are kinds of errors that real programmers actually make.

[krapp → dllthomas]

Fair enough.