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Scala Gets Operator Overloading Right

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Joey Gibson

02/20/2010 Update: I took this blog post and turned it into a presentation to the Atlanta Scala User Group, which I gave in January 2010. The slides from that presentation are here. 05/31/2009 Update: As Mads Andersen pointed out, in … Continue reading →

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Why I Love Closures

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I’ve been a big fan of closures for years. I was first introduced to them in Smalltalk, where they were just called blocks. Ruby has them and also calls them blocks. Java does not have them, though there are proposals … Continue reading →

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