Due to its extensions and overall syntax philosophy, kotlin is the only language where i feel i can consistently write functions in the form of

subject.verb(object)

. I personally hate syntax like python's

len(list)

, because I feel like as a property of the list, it should be called as

list.len

, and that

len(list)

implies some kind of transformation of

list

Completely agree. It feels weird to write an action performed by an object (as in

.len

) as an action performed on an object (such as

len()

)

also i want all functions to be verbs, or perhaps to imply expensive functions

One small advantage of

len()

is that it’s a function, and therefore can be composed with other functions nicely.

but in Kotlin properties can be composed with other functions as well, because of `get`ters