question: operator style

[eed3si9n]

https://www.creativescala.org/creative-scala.html#values-are-objects 2.2.2 Operators says:

1 + 2
// res4: Int = 3

1.+(2)
// res5: Int = 3

This second way of calling a method is known an operator style.

I've never heard of this name before. Is this "operator style" term used somewhere else? I am not sure if I'd associate dot-and-paren style more with "operator" than the infix notation, since operator precedence etc would affect infix notation more.

[noelwelsh]

So three issues here:

1. This is a typo. The former is what I call operator style. I've pushed a fix for this.
2. Is "operator style" a well known name? Perhaps not. Maybe infix operator is a better term.
3. Should we even introduce this? cf question: should infix notation be used for non-symbolic method names? #53 Probably should introduce it but perhaps not use infix operators as pervasively as they are currently used.

[eed3si9n]

1. ok that makes sense.
2. The term I see most is "infix operator notation" ("operator notation" works, but it includes prefix operator notation for -1), which is also the same term that's written right under it.
3. +1. We probably should explain that operators are methods, but not use it so much.

[noelwelsh]

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