A minor nitpick-nitpick: it's not so much that a JVM requirement prevents Scala from using H-M type inference, it's that H-M doesn't work very well with subtypi

A minor nitpick-nitpick: it's not so much that a JVM requirement prevents Scala from using H-M type inference, it's that H-M doesn't work very well with subtyping, which Scala supports for its own O-O reasons. This comment from Martin provides some context: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/is-scala-not-functional-enough#comment-4162 http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/is-scala-not-functional...