[Grace-core] Scala vs Java

[James Noble]

> We have most of them in Grace and the others seem less important.

the main one we don't have being multiline strings.
which I still wonder about.

> I would move case classes to the top of the list--it's such a drag that a basic data-holder class in Java requires 10-20 lines of code per field.

so we have now e.g.

object {
def field1 is public = ...
def field2 is public = ... 
}

which should define == & != but not an extract method

(or potentially) 

object is pubic {
inherits grace.value
def field1 = ...
def field2 = ... 
}

which might also define an extract method.
The catch in Grace is, with a strong separation of types & classes,
you'd also need to define a type if you wanted to match agains these.
Something like: 

type MyStructure = {
field1 -> Unknown 
field2 -> Unknown
extract  -> Tuple2<Unknown, Unknown> 
}

J