lukedegruchy

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by lukedegruchy 3y ago
C-11 is about algorithms (more specifically, the requirements that govern algorithms) and discoverability. The former CRTC commissioner as well as the senate confirmed that user generated content is within the scope of the bill: https:&#x2
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by lukedegruchy 3y ago
It's not the source of the funding that makes the CBC biased. It's all the exemptions and correspondence between the CBC and cabinet, the treasury board, and other arms of the government that is absolutely not made public in any w
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by lukedegruchy 3y ago
I'm a Canadian who's been following C-11 and before that C-10 for the 2 years the government has been working to pass this legislation. Here is the best summary I've read so far: https://allenmendelsohn.com/20
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by lukedegruchy 7y ago
For Canada, Toronto and Vancouver are considered distinct from the rest of their provinces, but not Montreal from the rest of Quebec.
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by lukedegruchy 11y ago
-reified generics: From what I've seen, the Ceylon guys have done a good job of implementing this and they make flow-sensitive typing possible. Without out, the benefits of union types don't fully materialize. See http:/&
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by lukedegruchy 11y ago
Experimental support for higher order generics will be in 1.2 (JavaScript runtime only): http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/06/03/generic-function-refs... http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2
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by lukedegruchy 11y ago
Optional (either JDK or Guava) is not perfect but is infinitely better than hand-checking for null. Among other things, it expresses the intent of the API writer that their method may or may not return an absent value and this is expressed
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Why build your own type system?(ceylon-lang.org)
2 points by lukedegruchy 11y ago|0 comments
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by lukedegruchy 11y ago
What well-designed language doesn't do this?
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by lukedegruchy 11y ago
Sorry, but I don't understand your point about instanceof/casting and how this relates to constructors. Please elaborate.
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by lukedegruchy 11y ago
Gavin's looking for positive feedback on this since he wants the community to buy into this, so please give encouragement if you want this feature. It's currently experimental and only works on the JavaScript runtime, but they&#x
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Programming with type functions in Ceylon(ceylon-lang.org)
27 points by lukedegruchy 11y ago|3 comments
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by lukedegruchy 12y ago
Java interop is way better with Ceylon 1.1. For example, use-site variance for generics was introduced and overloading bugs have been resolved. Ceylon 1.2 will have constructors (to support DI frameworks) and I believe Java EE integratio
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by lukedegruchy 12y ago
What's wrong with Ceylon's type system? I find it incredibly well designed. For instance, the Ceylon compiler won't allow you to assign null to a non-optional variable. Also, there is a bottom type, which makes controvar
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by lukedegruchy 12y ago
I disagree about the dots and parents. It impacts readability because the person reading the code, which most developers do 90% to 95%. If different developers on the team use different styles, it makes reasoning about the cod that much m
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by lukedegruchy 12y ago
I disagree. I think Scala suffers from Perlisms like being too succinct and more than one way of doing things (ex omitting dots and parens to invoke a method). There are newer alternative JVM languages that are more consistent and prefera
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Ceylon Tuple and Entry Destructuring(ceylon-lang.org)
3 points by lukedegruchy 12y ago|0 comments
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by lukedegruchy 12y ago
Scala isn't the only alternative JVM language that has a superior generics implementation and that doesn't have primitives. What neither Scala nor those languages have is support for value types (structs) at the JVM level. Generi