It's "funny" that things that are considered an anti-feature and something that needs to be avoided by all means in one place is considered a great feature in a

It's "funny" that things that are considered an anti-feature and something that needs to be avoided by all means in one place is considered a great feature in another place. This points strongly in the direction that there is no logic behind such "considerations". What you just showed was a implicit conversion from String to Date. Something you would get beaten up for in Scala land.