Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Quick update - a Scala presentation

I did a fairly well taken presentation at the Sydney JUG recently (trying to convince scala skeptics), thought I would put it here:

Errata: I made a few boo-boos in explaining things:

  • I didn't realise you could "return" at any point in a function, but you have to explicitly annotate the return type of the function, for one ;)
  • The Eclipse plugin seems to be useful to some people (wasn't great last time I tried).
  • In ScalaCheck, you have to do a little more work to make it generate Arbitrary Instances of non "built in" types.
  • Probably many more...