Justin du Coeur (jducoeur) wrote,
Justin du Coeur
jducoeur

The biggest problem of starting to do the core of CommYou in Scala...

... is that I'm still working in C#, Actionscript, and other things most of the time. And being able to say "but that would *work* in Scala!" is altogether too damned seductive. Having found a language that mostly DWIMs is making me notice the fact that the rest don't.

(Okay, I didn't really expect that particular usage of the Class object in Actionscript to work. But the compiler swallowed it, and it *would* work in Scala...)

ETA: Okay, I must apologize to Actionscript -- with a little more hacking, my improbable experiment *did* work. I'm going to have to remember that the Actionscript Class object is a *lot* more powerful than it is generally given credit for...
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