<div dir="ltr">I would add functional collections (oh I miss them so), and remove multi-line strings (IDEs can bridge this gap). 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.<div>
<br></div><div>Semicolons are a low-brow topic, but it's a fun one in that it's a rare case where a good PL designer can show their chops. People love it in Scala and Python, and hate it in JavaScript, and the difference is in the details.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lex</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Kim Bruce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kim@cs.pomona.edu" target="_blank">kim@cs.pomona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The missing link:<br>
<a href="http://blog.jooq.org/2014/08/01/the-10-most-annoying-things-coming-back-to-java-after-some-days-of-scala/" target="_blank">http://blog.jooq.org/2014/08/01/the-10-most-annoying-things-coming-back-to-java-after-some-days-of-scala/</a><br>
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On Aug 8, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Kim Bruce <<a href="mailto:kim@cs.pomona.edu">kim@cs.pomona.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> This is an interesting discussion of features of Scala that are missed by programmers in Java. We have most of them in Grace and the others seem less important.<br>
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