leadnose

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1. 1.▲
   by leadnose 17y ago

   I've actually seen that kind of definition in the source of one game.
2. 2.▲
   by leadnose 17y ago

   My guess is that C# supports stuff that has no direct and fast implementation on the JVM. IIRC C# has unsigned primitive types, stack allocated objects etc. which JVM doesn't have.
3. 3.▲
   by leadnose 17y ago

   Requires a clean install? Is this really the state of the art in the Windows-world?
4. 4.▲
   by leadnose 17y ago

   http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/hlint/
5. 5.▲
   by leadnose 17y ago

   I don't quite understand why that sort of methods should belong to array-class. Should array also have product-method? Average? Standard-deviation? Concatenating strings? Where should you draw the line?
6. 6.▲
   by leadnose 17y ago

   Consider libraries in dynamic languages, there's no way to know beforehand the type of the argument a function is called with.
7. 7.▲
   by leadnose 17y ago

   Maybe I should have said "they don't have type inference".
8. 8.▲
   by leadnose 17y ago

   The more I have thought about fully dynamic languages that don't allow any form of static typing information, the more I have begun to think that they are not very useful. Sure, polymorphism is nice, overloading is nice, but all of the prog