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owlstuffingyesterday at 5:03 AM0 repliesview on HN

What if these were real, type-safe expressions in Java:

    2025 July 19   // → LocalDate  
    300M m/s       // → Velocity  
    1 to 10        // → Range<Int>  
    Schedule Alice Tues 3pm  // → CalendarEvent
That's the idea behind binding expressions — a compiler plugin I built to explore what it would mean if adjacency had operator semantics. It lets adjacent expressions bind based on their static types, forming new expressions through type-directed resolution.

Details here: https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/doc...