> In the end Scala's requirement to annotate input parameters is not a big deal, as this only enforces what Haskell/Ocaml/... consider to be best practice anywa

> In the end Scala's requirement to annotate input parameters is not a big deal, as this only enforces what Haskell/Ocaml/... consider to be best practice anyway. It's a huge deal. I always write type signatures once I know what they are, but a lot of the time I get the compiler to infer them for me which saves significant headaches.