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Martin Odersky: Scala with Style

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Programming languagesSoftware designScalaFunctional programmingObject-oriented design

Martin Odersky shares his perspective on writing idiomatic Scala, discussing the transition and fusion between object-oriented and functional programming styles.

What does it mean to have good style in Scala? Well, who better to help answer that question than its creator! Martin Odersky visited SF Scala to share his perspective on getting the most out of this incredibly complex, and powerful, programming language. This talk is a repeat of the keynote Martin gave at Scala Days 2013. He says, that in today's programming paradigm, we are in a transition period between imperative/object-oriented and functional programming. In the end, he predicts a fusion between both styles. Find out why! **Check this out for more of the latest in Scala: marakana.com/s/tags/scala

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u/aabil11in r/scala • Recommends

Preferred style for Infix notation, for higher-order functions. Scala allows "infix notation" where the dot and parenthesis can be left off of methods that take exactly 1 parameter. What is the preferred style for infix notation vs "." when it comes to chained higher order functions? According to scala-lang.org, the preferred is infix notation: `// wrong! names.map { _.toUpperCase }.filter { _.length > 5 }` `// right! names map { _.toUpperCase } filter { _.length > 5 }` However, according to the man himself, the preferred is ".method(...)" for chained operators. Personally, I agree with Odersky here. I think using the dot notation actually makes things much more readable. Which do yo…
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u/ivanovich_ivanin r/scala • Recommends

…use it for many other applications such as Akka HTTP for web services and Akka in general for distributed apps. I hold some convictions about scala in general and other frameworks and I just want to cross verify and what the future holds for scala. 1) Scala was never designed to be an upgrade to Java From martin odersky's lecture back in 2013 - link to this video - Scala was never designed to be a better Java - We have Kotlin trying to do that - Not a haskell on the JVM - Eta lang I found this to be reflecting how the real world works. Some things are better done with FP and some things are better done in OOP. So on this aspect, it does not compete with Kotlin nor Haskell/Eta lang. What are yo…
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