[GR-Jug] Scala Anyone?

[Zach Dennis]

Has anyone on the gr-jug list looked into Scala? http://www.scala-lang.org

I've been toying with it the past week or so because it feels like a
hybrid of ruby and java, at least syntactically. It compiles to JVM
and CLR bytecode and offers alot of much needed redesign to syntax
that both Java and C# suffer from.

It brings in alot of great concepts from functional and object
oriented programming languages into a single syntax which is quite
"cool" to say the least.

I haven't used it for anything outside of toying around so I don't
know how applicable it is to real world problems.

One thing it seems to lack is a nice facility for reflection, but so
does Java and C#. A limitation of the language and the JVM or a
limitation of it's implementation?

Zach