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bobbyi_settv on May 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift is like Kotlin

I've had the same issue with Scala. It goes out of its way to provide every syntax convenience that has ever existed--pattern matching, custom string interpolation, literal syntax for tuples, optional parens on method calls--- and then requires Maps and Seqs to be created with syntax like

val shoppingList = Seq("catfish", "water", "tulips", "blue paint")

darksaints on May 18, 2017 [–]

I personally like that about scala. If I decide an IndexedSeq is better than my original choice of List, it is just a rename, not a syntax change.

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