Hah no there aren't. I work in Haskell (one of the few languages that is as or more efficient as Scala) and these things still arise with it. And they're not a

Hah no there aren't. I work in Haskell (one of the few languages that is as or more efficient as Scala) and these things still arise with it. And they're not a problem because you do them and you end up programming better than in a language without these things :)