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I thought we were talking about "adding methods" to collection-like things so that they look as if they were built-in. And this was what the article was about: That it gets complex…

I'm not Parent, but I think that this is his implementation: https://github.com/nickik/Persistent-Vector-in-Dylan/blob/ma... The last part (line 222+) is what defines it as a seque…

Well that is the beauty of it. In Scala methods/functions that come after the dot are privileged. In a language with multiple dispatch they are not. So CL solves the problem withou…

Of those Languages you listed, many don't have implemented function closures correctly. Python doesn't allow you to mutate variables from enclosing scopes (by default, at least). R…

this: func global(some_arg_to_close_over Bar) { func walk_tree(node Node) { ... walk_tree(left(node)) walk_tree(right(node)) } walk_tree(something) }

This is what they want: func outer(a int) { func inner_helper(b int) { ... } } Pascal allowed nested functions 40 years ago...

(1) MLs allow to nest named functions. Go only allows named global functions, and lacks a feature that Pascal had. (2) Someone has to do cleanup anyhow. Either the caller or callee…

Scala is actually a really bad name for trying to google it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala

You don't typecheck macros since they run at compile time. You typecheck the expanded code instead.

What I still don't get is why inheritance in OO-languages is always the heavyweight version, namely subclassing. Imho every class definition in Java-like OO languages should create…