why does the following code snippet ```"foo" > ...

# getting-started

[David Hu]

why does the following code snippet

"foo" > "bar"

magically works in Kotlin REPL and returns a boolean instead of throwing an error or exception?

how is it even possible to "compare" strings this way when the same code in Java does not work at all?!

[Kevin Healy]

Take a look at https://kotlinlang.org/docs/operator-overloading.html

[David Hu]

wow! kotlin magic 🔮