Monthly Archive for December, 2010

Understanding Scala Implicits

Published on Dec 26, 2010 in misc. 5 Comments Tags: , , .

Many languages make use of implicit conversions. Scala is the only language I know of which makes implicit definitions a feature.

It is very easy to understand an implicit conversion since most programming languages do this already for you. Here are two examples (AS3/Java):

trace("Implicitly converted: "+1)
System.out.println("Implicitly converted: "+1);

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A Year Of Scala

Published on Dec 26, 2010 in personal. 17 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

About a year ago I started using Scala. A programming language I felt in love with after all. The one and only programming language that started making me smile when I was happy to see how elegant I can express my ideas.

I have been trying to spread the word about Scala during various Flash conferences and always tried convincing my colleagues and friends to learn this great language. A blog post by Alan Shaw about his experience with Haskell inspired me to write about my journey.

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