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* The "optional semicolon" idea is very problematic, delimitation of statements should be unambiguous, and the significance of tokens (whether semicolon or newline) should be unambiguous as well. Interpreting newline as a statement terminator if a statement terminator makes sense here is an idea that has wrought havoc in R already.
 
* The "optional semicolon" idea is very problematic, delimitation of statements should be unambiguous, and the significance of tokens (whether semicolon or newline) should be unambiguous as well. Interpreting newline as a statement terminator if a statement terminator makes sense here is an idea that has wrought havoc in R already.
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* The "value oriented" interpretation of the == operator seems problematic to me. What should the Scala programmer use to test for object identity?
  
 
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Revision as of 15:30, 25 November 2011

Notes

On "An Overview of the Scala Programming Language" An Overview of the Scala Programming Language, Second Edition, by Martin et.al

  • The point of Scala's pattern matching feature is not quite clear to me.
  • Scala's "id: type" syntax is rather less easy to read than Java's "type id" syntax.
  • The "optional semicolon" idea is very problematic, delimitation of statements should be unambiguous, and the significance of tokens (whether semicolon or newline) should be unambiguous as well. Interpreting newline as a statement terminator if a statement terminator makes sense here is an idea that has wrought havoc in R already.
  • The "value oriented" interpretation of the == operator seems problematic to me. What should the Scala programmer use to test for object identity?