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Re:Amazon is hiring Clojure devs by saryant on Thursday November 27, 2014 @01:17AM (#8666204)
> The other programmers were like type casting to Any or whatever that generalize highest type was (unified type theory).

As a Scala dev, that is absolutely terrifying. I can't even begin to think of a good reason for that.

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Re:Amazon is hiring Clojure devs by codygman on Thursday November 27, 2014 @03:13AM (#8666417)
It sounds like a Haskell programmer using unsafePerformIO everywhere. Or, perhaps a more apt example would be using Data.Dynamic for everything.
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Re:Amazon is hiring Clojure devs by saryant on Thursday November 27, 2014 @03:40AM (#8666456)
Yeah, casting to Any isn't a "grey area" in Scala's OO/Functional mix, it's just plain crazy.
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Re:Amazon is hiring Clojure devs by carterschonwald on Thursday November 27, 2014 @10:45AM (#8667641)
Those are still pretty safe to do. OTOH, Any drops everything on the floor
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Re:Amazon is hiring Clojure devs by michaelochurch on Thursday November 27, 2014 @11:43AM (#8667952)
unsafePerformIO is for quiche eaters. Real programmers use accursedUnutterablePerformIO.

(Ok, but in all seriousness... don't.)

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