Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Dynamic binding / Scala paper

On Thursday 30 June 2005 23:21, Colin Paul Adams wrote:

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"Benjamin" == Benjamin Franksen writes:

Benjamin> Ok, Eiffel has a few holes in its type-system, doesn't Benjamin> naturally integrate with Java/.Net, and doesn't support

In what way? Eiffel compilers target these systems successfully.

Which Eiffel compiler allows to use Java classes directly in your Eiffel code, just as if they were Eiffel classes?

Benjamin> XML directly.

How do you mean? What language DOES support XML directly? XSLT - yes (which is slightly more on topic here, as it is a pure functional language), but others?

Well, I was talking about a concrete language, didn't I? See http://scala.epfl.ch/docu/files/ScalaOverview.pdf Ben