Stupid Emoticon Tricks

Just for giggles, I decided to see if could get emoticons to compile in Scala. Randomly picking from the Wikipedia page for Eastern-style emoticons, I find I can compile the following code:

package blevins.emoticon

object App extends Application {
  import Emoticon._
  
  val emoticons: List[Emoticon] =
    List( 
      ( ^ _ ^ ) ,
      ( ^ o ^ ) ,
      d ( ^ _ ^ ) b ,
      ( T _ T ) ,
      ( Z . Z )
    )
 
  for ( f <- emoticons ) { f.print }
}
 

It outputs the following:

(^_^)
(^o^)
d(^_^)b
(T_T)
(Z.Z)

The contents of the Emoticon object is left as an exercise for the reader. Note that I was unable to do the (-.-)Zzz emoticon, but maybe that is just because I didn't try hard enough.

If this doesn't convince you to return to Java, nothing will...