22 May
2014
22 May
'14
4:10 a.m.
Hi João,
... with an obvious default value ...
I think that's the problem some people have, that the default values for several types aren't obvious at all and therefore you have to know the default values of several types to easily read code using 'def'. The default values for container like types - like String or List - are mostly quite obvious, they're just the empty ones. But the default values for types like Int, Bool of Float aren't that obvious and they certainly don't make sense in any use case. That's also the reason why an Empty type class was advocated instead of the Default one, because than it's really obvious what the result for container like types is. Greetings, Daniel