Is kotlin now using `&`, `|` for anything? Bit...

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[Hullaballoonatic]

Is kotlin now using &, | for anything? Bitwise operators? Would be kinda neat if | could be a new bracket type if kot, but that would be weirdly different from industry standard.

[karelpeeters]

No thanks I'd like those bitwise operators please!

[Jonathan Mew]

Ruby and Rust use pipes for closure inputs, so not totally unprecedented as a bracketing character and doesn't need to clash with your bitwise operators 🙂
Not sure that I'd encourage new bracket types for the use case that they'd be kinda neat though..

[Hullaballoonatic]

yeah, I imagine the compiler could understand the difference between using | as a bitwise operator and as brackets, even in a case like a | b | c

[Hullaballoonatic]

a simple implementation of | as a bracket could just be absolute value of a number.

[Hullaballoonatic]

or it could denote truly immutable collections, perhaps

[Hullaballoonatic]

but we don't have list literals in kotlin as it is, so...