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Re:Is Scala really more complicated than Java? by silentbicycle on Saturday September 19, 2009 @08:04PM (#832495)
That's because conditionals are implicit in the underlying selection of targets. Trying to force explicit conditionals into the language gets cumbersome and ugly. You don't see explicit 'if's in Prolog, either.
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Re:Is Scala really more complicated than Java? by yosh on Saturday September 19, 2009 @08:15PM (#832509)
I disagree. Writing multiplatform makefiles without explicit conditionals is cumbersome and ugly, mainly because the problem space contains so many exceptions. In this case, purism isn't really practical.
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