On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Christos KK Loverdos
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loverdos@...> wrote:
> Have you seen the paper "Generics of a Higher Kind"?
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http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2579Yes, the Buildable trait is based on that. Obviously. :-) The more
interesting part of this is the dual of that, the Enumerable trait.
> They introduce a Buildable trait that does the job. Moreover, Martin
> has just said in scala-debate that they are redesigning the
> collections in order to use the ideas in the paper, and they do so in
> a backwards-compatible way. It will take them a couple of months
> before they go public.
Which is all the more reason to discuss this now rather than in a few
months once the decision has been finalised...
