New operators

[tieskedh]

There are multiple discussions going on:

For the binary operators:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issueMobile/KT-1440

For function literals:

Plans for collection literals?

I’ve read about collections literals (or the whish for them) in Kotlin from time to time. But I’ve found no official statement whether they should be introduced some times or not. I think of something like this: val myList = [3, 1, 2, 3] val mySet = {1, 2, 3} // or [1, 2, 3].asSet val myMap = {"a" : 1, "b" : 2, "c": 3} Although listOf etc. is not too bad, such a syntax would be very handy. Are there any plans to introduce collection literals?

(function literals do exist at the moment for annotations)

Ps. For the mapping note:

Plans for collection literals?

Just pointing out that Kotlin already has the “to” infix method so if they did implement anything it would probably look more like: val myMap = {"a" to 1, "b" to 2, "c" to 3}