Exactly. And that must be one of the reasons the Java designers said "no" to operator overloading? That kind of programmers just don't like operators I guess. But we do :-) Although I would prefer nice math symbols and layout instead of the :~> ASCII art.

Thielemann wrote:

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

But when I show typical Haskell code to object-oriented friends of mine,
they get scared because it looks like math, with all the symbols and
short names.


They will feel like a C programmer looking at C++ code, wondering how the
heck an output stream can be left shifted by a number using << .  :-)