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by Pet_Ant 540 days ago
But did it provide a gain in power and soundness? There issues with the 2.x system.
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lmm 540 days ago
It did, which makes it all the more frustrating that you can't adopt it separately from the syntax and tooling changes.
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Taikonerd 540 days ago
But the new syntax is optional, right? So you could upgrade and keep the old syntax? (I'm not a Scala dev, so this is just my impression.)
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lmm 539 days ago
Some of the syntax changes are optional, some of them like the _/* change aren't.
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merb 540 days ago
Most programming languages have unsound features.
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