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=={{header|Raku}}==
While it is very easy to overload operators in Raku, it isn't really common...
at least, not in the traditional sense.
One of the founding principles of Raku is that: "Different things should look different". It follows that "Similar things should look similar".
To pick out one tiny example: Adding numbery things together shouldn't be easily confusable with concatenating
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Unicode character or combination may used to define it. They may be infix,
prefix, postfix, (or post-circumfix!) The precedence, associativity and arity
are all easily defined. An operator at heart is just a subroutine with funny calling conventions.
Borrowed from the [[Nimber_arithmetic#Raku|Nimber arithmetic]] task:
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# New infix +
multi infix:<+> (Line $x, Line $y) {
Line.new(
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