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Martin Odersky Summary(2) - things to drop - Hi all, Thanks for your continuing responses and suggestions. It's a pleasure to interact with such a well-informed... Loading...
Bill Venners-3 Hi Martin, On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:05 AM, martin odersky <martin.odersky@...> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks... Loading...
Jorge Ortiz-3 For 1: +1. It would be great if a method that returns a tuple could be used to fill in the argument for another... Loading...
Tony Sloane On 24/11/2008, at 6:05 PM, martin odersky wrote: > 6. Partial function application. > I am very surprised that... Loading...
csar Will then val args = (1,"boo") foo(args) work es well? Thinking it to an end it would mean that args could be... Loading...
John Nilsson On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM, martin odersky <martin.odersky@...wrote: > I am very surprised that nobody has... Loading...
Martin Odersky On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:46 PM, John Nilsson <john@...> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM, martin... Loading...
Seth Tisue >>>>> "martin" == martin odersky <martin.odersky@...> writes: martin> 6. Partial function application. martin>... Loading...
Martin Odersky On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Seth Tisue <seth@...> wrote: >>>>>> "martin" == martin odersky... Loading...
bearfeeder On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:27 AM, martin odersky <martin.odersky@...wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:22 PM,... Loading...
Viktor Klang On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:27 PM, martin odersky <martin.odersky@...wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:22 PM,... Loading...
Viktor Klang Ah, just to clarify: without knowing the signature of: method "foo" on type "bar", and without knowing the... Loading...
John Nilsson On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM, martin odersky <martin.odersky@...wrote: > We did that in Scala 1.x, and it did... Loading...
Ricky Clarkson Having to explicitly denote functions (ok, methods) with a _ after them is one of the big syntax differences between... Loading...
Viktor Klang On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clarkson@...wrote: > Having to explicitly denote... Loading...
Vladimir Kirichenko-2 David Pollak wrote: This looks very normal to pass function identifier as argument of type function in the language... Loading...
James Iry-2 In foo.bar(baz) you don't know anything about the type of baz. Is it an Int? A String? A function? In other words,... Loading...
Vladimir Kirichenko-2 James Iry wrote: > In foo.bar(baz) you don't know anything about the type of baz. Is it an > Int? A String? A... Loading...
Stepan Koltsov-2 On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 23:48, Vladimir Kirichenko <vladimir.kirichenko@...> wrote: > > This looks very normal... Loading...
Seth Tisue >>>>> "martin" == martin odersky <martin.odersky@...> writes: >> Can you give a concrete example involving... Loading...
John Nilsson On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Stepan Koltsov <stepan.koltsov@...wrote: > > inc is not a function, it is a... Loading...
Viktor Klang On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:48 PM, James Iry <jamesiry@...> wrote: > In foo.bar(baz) you don't know anything... Loading...
Peter Niederwieser +1 Loading...
Martin Odersky On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:54 PM, John Nilsson <john@...> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM, martin... Loading...
KingCub Is there any way to address the idea of having a function take anything except for a function? supposed a trait... Loading...
tmorris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What would such a function do? This seems like not-an-idea to... Loading...
KingCub I guess it was in response to martin's comment regarding subtyping and general root types as being an issue with OO/FP,... Loading...
Eric Willigers David Pollak wrote: > My 2 cents: I really like this syntax. > xs.map(inc _) // OK +1 Loading...
Lex Spoon-3 martin odersky wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:46 PM, John Nilsson <john@...> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008... Loading...
John Nilsson On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Lex Spoon <lex@...> wrote: > Is anyone having problems with the semicolon... Loading...
David MacIver On 11/30/08, Lex Spoon <lex@...> wrote: > Because we will not seriously propose that 95% Scala programs... Loading...
Ismael Juma Hi, I was away so I missed most of this discussion, but I am happy to see plans to improve these 3... Loading...
John Nilsson On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:54 PM, David MacIver <david.maciver@...wrote: > > All that being said, I don't think... Loading...
Bill Venners-3 Hi John, One that Martin mentioned in the context of postfix notation was this: ----------- class Example { ... Loading...
Geoffrey Alan Washburn-4 Re: Summary(2) - things to drop - John Nilsson wrote: > Like for example say you define a statment as any expression of type > Unit. Or any... Loading...
John Nilsson On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Bill Venners <bill@...> wrote: > example draw > 2 I can see how this is a... Loading...
John Nilsson Is this an active research topic or is it jus a general concensus that it isn't worth it? If it has been sugested... Loading...
Geoffrey Alan Washburn-4 Re: Summary(2) - things to drop - John Nilsson wrote: > Is this an active research topic or is it jus a general concensus that > it isn't worth... Loading...
Bill Venners-3 Hi John, On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:46 PM, John Nilsson <john@...> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:26 AM,... Loading...
Russ Abbott To return to an issue raised a while ago, I would like to see type parameters as part of function literals. The first... Loading...
Lex Spoon-3 Re: Summary(2) - things to drop - John Nilsson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Lex Spoon <lex@... > <mailto:lex@...>>... Loading...
Lex Spoon-3 Re: Summary(2) - things to drop - David MacIver wrote: > On 11/30/08, *Lex Spoon* <lex@... <mailto:lex@...>> wrote: > With me it's... Loading...
Lex Spoon-3 Re: Summary(2) - things to drop - John Nilsson wrote: > Before dropping the discussion though. I would be interested in seeing > some of the... Loading...
Arthur Peters-2 On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Lex Spoon <lex@...> wrote: > John Nilsson wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 30,... Loading...
David MacIver On 12/1/08, Lex Spoon <lex@...> wrote: > > David MacIver wrote: > >> On 11/30/08, *Lex Spoon*... Loading...
bearfeeder On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:40 AM, David MacIver <david.maciver@...wrote: > On 12/1/08, Lex Spoon... Loading...
David MacIver On 12/1/08, Arthur Peters <amp@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Lex Spoon... Loading...
Naftoli Gugenheim As far as XML pattern matching, one of the problems (unless it was solved and I'm not aware of it) is using namespaces... Loading...
Seth Tisue I can't recall if this has been suggested before, but perhaps scalac should have a command line option to turn off... Loading...
Ricky Clarkson Then it is difficult to know how to compile a random .scala file you find. 2008/12/1 Seth Tisue... Loading...
bearfeeder XML pattern matching is also an order of magnitude slower than: case e: Elem if e.label == "foo" =>... Loading...
Seth Tisue >>>>> "Ricky" == Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clarkson@...> writes: >> I can't recall if this has been suggested... Loading...
Jan Lohre +1 for that option 2008/12/1 Seth Tisue <seth@...> > > I can't recall if this has been suggested before,... Loading...
Jan Lohre Well, if you want to compile my .scala file you will have to follow my rules ;-) Seriously, although I do not see as... Loading...
Arthur Peters-2 On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Seth Tisue <seth@...> wrote: > >>>>> "Ricky" == Ricky Clarkson... Loading...
Florian Hars-3 Bill Venners schrieb: > It requires two overloaded methods It is even nicer if the 1-arg methods take a parameter of... Loading...
Naftoli Gugenheim Does my idea make any sense? On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Naftoli Gugenheim <naftoligug@...wrote: > As... Loading...
Martin Odersky On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Naftoli Gugenheim <naftoligug@...> wrote: > Does my idea make any sense? > > On... Loading...
bearfeeder On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:11 PM, martin odersky <martin.odersky@...wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:36 PM,... Loading...
Naftoli Gugenheim Sorry, I thought I had read that it *was *being considered (to make it library-implemented)... But what about the idea... Loading...
GatesDA Public fields are safe to use in Scala because you can switch between val/var and def without breaking client code. ... Loading...
David MacIver On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:06 PM, GatesDA <GatesDA@...> wrote: > > > Ricky Clarkson wrote: > > My own thoughts... Loading...
Dimitris Andreou O/H GatesDA έγραψε: > Public fields are safe to use in Scala because you can switch between > val/var and def without... Loading...
GatesDA Thanks for pointing that out; I had assumed that an implicitly generated def would behave the same as an explicit... Loading...
Ricky Clarkson Changing it from a val to a def can cause assumptions to break. scala> class X { val x = 5 } defined class... Loading...
GatesDA The assumptions are broken here not by the change from val to def, but by the change in behavior. A behavioral... Loading...
Tillmann Rendel-2 GatesDA wrote: > I was looking for an example to show the importance of vals being stable identifiers. Only stable... Loading...
David MacIver On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:36 PM, GatesDA <GatesDA@...> wrote: > > > David MacIver wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan... Loading...
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