I thought the technical point was in the first sentence - the point that
minor typos cause very strange/confusing error messages. Because of
things like you can leave out semi colons, leave out parenthesis, etc -
all useful in their own ways - it means that given a sequence of tokens
the comp
Hi Reinier,
I read your rant but I do not see *any* technical points.
Could you please provide some actual technical ammo as well besides
just basically saying scala sucks (since it's academic or it can not
handle some typos [sic])?
Thanks,
Peter
On Dec 16, 5:06 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote
It's ironic isn't it.
Date handling is used in almost every Java program and yet 1 guy is
working on improvements 3 hours a week.
If a community wants to solve a problem, how about this one instead of
yet another web frame work / app server / logging system?
(Yes, I could follow my own advice a
No amount of tooling in the world is going to fix scala's uncanny
ability to throw tantrums the moment you make some typos.
Scala is like an older ferrari or lamborghini. Very very cool, but the
thing will bite your head off unless you're a trained expert.
Until scala makes some steps to address
I don't understand why people (including the posse themselves)
continue to be confused about type erasure.
it's -very- simple.
Generics is _never_ erased from TYPES. It is _always_ erased from
OBJECTS.
That's all there is to it.
On Dec 16, 7:32 pm, "d.j.hagberg" wrote:
> There was an excell
That's neat. However, I don't know about others, but my issue with
erasure is not that it's cumbersome or somtimes impossible to
introspect, but how it exposes a handicap right there in the type-
system preventing me from writing certain kinds of code. Imagining
something you wish to have implemen
There was an excellent post by Kohsuke today on java.net that talks
about how to use the java.lang.reflect.Type class to introspect
generics and write code that can handle signatures of List vs.
List correctly.
I think this answers the question of how javac, jaxb, and other
utilities handle gener
Amidst all the crowd yaying of the latest podcast, some grave news are
hitting the tubes:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2008/jw-12-year-in-review-2.html
https://jsr-310.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=1389
At the prospect of being tormented by Calendar and Date for another
