i know i can make an infix ``**`` but i dun wanna ;_;

like it's strange they don't use

&

and

^

for boolean

and

and

or

when they already use

!

for boolean

not

or they could also use

&&

and

||

for bitwise operators too 🤷‍♂️

but hey kt-1440

"The main reason why the features you implemented are not in the language yet is that there are many questions about possible better uses of the syntactic elements they employ. There are very few special characters on our keyboards, so we have to be very cautious here. My personal hunch is that | and & have a decent chance of becoming overloadable operators in Kotlin at some point, but it’s less likely for ^, <<, >>, >>>. In any case, to make such decisions we have to finalize a few other bigger features with high syntactic uncertainty: collection literals, some DSL-related features, etc."

And a workaround for the same https://twitter.com/marcinmoskala/status/1007640373970329600/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1007640373970329600%7Ctwgr%5E373939313b636f6e74726f6c&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.kotlin-academy.com%2Fmedia%2F056ef2cb1887537e4a1f7f9acf0f9d13%3FpostId%3Da225dbb004a6

reading through the proposed features, i could not want collection literals and collection comprensions harder

oh fuck, and inline classes for units of measurement, though i do really enjoy https://git.tenkiv.org/software/Physikal

i also really support "no comma after any element of a list if it's followed by a new line"

that would be great for constructors

although a lot of these features feel like.... why is this even a question? (e.g. unsigned types, SAM conversions)

nvm, though, 1.3 is bringing quite a few of them, including inline classes, and unsigned ints 😄