[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-24 Thread Tony Morris
Hi John, Zwitserloot is not saying anything meaningful. He may be trying to say something about the different properties between scala.List and java.util.List. For example scala.List is always evaluated in-memory, is immutable and has constant time insert, while java.util.List says nothing about

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-24 Thread James Iry
Oops, my sock puppet was busted. :-) On Dec 24, 10:31 am, James Iry wrote: > Yeah if scala.List is differnt from java.util.List means that Scala is > incompatible with Java then Java is incompatible with itself because > it has java.util.List and java.awt.List also it has java.util.Date and > j

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-24 Thread James Iry
Yeah if scala.List is differnt from java.util.List means that Scala is incompatible with Java then Java is incompatible with itself because it has java.util.List and java.awt.List also it has java.util.Date and java.sql.Date. And a bunch of others. Hahaha. Thanks for the tip about conversions.

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-24 Thread James Iry
Hi John, Thanks for investigating rather than taking such claims on face value. Indeed, the Scala language is compatible with Java's List hierarchy. As you point out, scala.List is just another class which you can use or not use. There is one caveat that brings a small kernel of truth to the o

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-24 Thread John Debeard
I'm really new to Scala so this might not be really good. Riener made me wonder if Scala was incompatible with Java Lists so I had to try to see if he was right. scala> import java.util.List; import java.util.List scala> import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.ArrayList scala> val names

[The Java Posse] Re: Christmas Wishlist Trivia

2008-12-24 Thread Hairless_ape
Yeah, it's a big mystery. I guess they have an inferiority complex to beer, which really is a shame as they can really beat beer during the work hours. At least at those places that don't allow drinking at work. On Dec 24, 1:21 pm, Tom Hawtin wrote: > On Dec 24, 1:27 am, Hairless_ape wrote: >

[The Java Posse] Re: Christmas Wishlist Trivia

2008-12-24 Thread Tom Hawtin
On Dec 24, 1:27 am, Hairless_ape wrote: > Women.(at least you are on the list) > Free women.(yes you rank below beer) I can't understand why they don't want to work with us. Tom --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the G