&gt; You look at Scala code and first don&#x27;t get anything because it&#x27;s full of library specific symbols.<p>I&#x27;ve been using Scala for years and I&#x27;ve had minimal contact with libraries using symbols in any significant way (most libraries I commonly depend on use no operator overloading at all). The only ones which come to mind are some of the linked list operations and Map(foo -&gt; bar, abc -&gt; def) stuff.