The Scala Experiment: Better Language Support for...

[hgfuhgvg]

Why cannot Scala infer return type of recursive methods? Is there any theoretical result that says this is not possible? 

[tavo2099]

@hgfuhgvg, scala optimizes recursive calls with a jump to the beginning of the function with values updated, so the compiler maight be unable to check the type for the first call, at the end no stack call recursion exist at all.

[shakir1234567]

Anyone know any video explaning the basis on object oriented system, ( characters, bounderies, systems, requirements, ect..) I would be helpful! Tahnk you

[rojebrio]

Here is a link to the slides, since they are very blurry in the video.

Youtube doesn't let me put a link. Subsitute spaces for slashes:

lampwww.epfl.ch ~odersky talks google06.pdf

[shishal]

slides are not clear :(

[BacklTrack]

I much prefer Scala to other functional programming languages. Haskell is close, but I like it much more so than Erlang.

[vviewerr]

This would be much more useful if the slides were legible.

[brianasap]

I am just starting to look at Scala, and wonder what others may think. Is it the next big thing in Java? Performance is critical. While Ruby and Groovy look nice, they don't perform well. Scala appears comparable to Java in performance. I very much like what I have seen thus far, but I have not yet used it. There are horses for courses, and I want firstly good performance comparable to Java, and secondly features above and beyond Java, and that includes brevity primarily without being cryptic.

[masterjau]

I think performance is important, but static typing is the main point it is a viable alternative to both java and dynamic languages on jvm.