4 ms·

A non-blocking lexing toolkit for Scala in less than 800 lines of code

• swah 16y ago
  Nice, not as verbose as I thought Scala code was...
  • crux_ 16y ago
    Scala can be incredibly concise; I'm not sure where you got the "verbose" impression. Possibly tutorials that transliterated from Java? (One of Scala's strengths, and weaknesses, is its flexibility: You can write Haskell-like code in Scala, Java-like code in Scala, or even something Perlish if you prefer...)
    • henning 16y ago
      although Scala has local type inference, you see far more type declarations than you would in ML or Haskell. if you have a lot of one-line functions (which might be 5-15 in Java, say), the type decls become a significant fraction of characters typed. even with that, on the merits Scala is one of the best languages out there in my mind.
• deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
• jongraehl 16y ago
  On-the-fly derivative of RE seems like it would offer horrible performance. I suppose memoization could help, though.