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What's the problem with Scala's XML literals?
In this post, Martin (the language's head honcho) writes:
[XML literals] Seemed a great idea at the
time, now it sticks out like a sore thumb. I believe with the new
string interpolation ...
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What has been learned about making variance part of the type?
In Java, the variance of parameterized types is indicated depending on how it's used:
<A extends B,B> void store(ArrayList<B> list, A elem) {
list.add(elem);
}
Whereas in Scala it ...
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Help me deal with higher level languages
I'm trying to learn Scala (I have previously glanced at Erlang, Haskell, Ruby and had similar issues). I do enjoy it, but I feel bad about some things it does and I wonder if that's just due to all ...
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What do Java developers think of Scala? [closed]
I've noted that IDE support is nowhere near as good, but the language itself supports functional programming idioms much more cleanly.
