On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Josh Berry <tae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I think an underlying point Kevin was making was > that there is no compiler support outside of implicits for the > collections in scala. That is, if you had a use case that was similar > to this in code you were writing, you too could take advantage of it. > Since Fantom doesn't even let you write generic classes, I'm guessing > they special case their collections in the compiler. > Yes, they most likely do. Don't focus on Fantom, I picked it because it's the fastest I can write an example with. I'm looking forward to writing this in Kotlin (with reified generics, no less). My point was that I often feel that Scala is the proverbial frog being slowly cooked in its own complexity and not realizing that there are easier ways to provide certain functionalities. At the expense of certain features, for sure, so the question remains: are these extra features worth paying for the complexity and creating this rift between regular and API developers? -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
