[a_strange_guy]

Well that is the beauty of it. In Scala methods/functions that come after the dot are privileged. In a language with multiple dispatch they are not.

So CL solves the problem without adding more complexity, whereas in Scala you have to extort yourself to shoehorn some functionality after the dot.

[soc88]

CL isn't even statically typed. Everything is easy if you don't expect that the language gives you any useful guarantees.