i don't care much about the symbol class but i find 'a much easier on the
eye than $"a" or "a" and we use it extensively as such in many DSLs
including spark.
so its the syntax i would like to preserve not the class, which seems to be
the opposite of what they are suggesting.
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:07 AM Rubén Berenguel <rbereng...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I favour using either $”foo” or columnar expressions, but know of several
> developers who prefer single quote syntax and consider it a better practice.
>
> R
>
> On 31 March 2019 at 15:15:00, Sean Owen (sro...@apache.org) wrote:
>
>> FWIW I use "foo" in Pyspark or col("foo") where necessary, and $"foo" in
>> Scala
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 1:58 AM Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As part of evolving the Scala language, the Scala team is considering
>>> removing single-quote syntax for representing symbols. Single-quote syntax
>>> is one of the ways to represent a column in Spark's DataFrame API. While I
>>> personally don't use them (I prefer just using strings for column names, or
>>> using expr function), I see them used quite a lot by other people's code,
>>> e.g.
>>>
>>> df.select('id, 'name).show()
>>>
>>> I want to bring this to more people's attention, in case they are
>>> depending on this. The discussion thread is:
>>> https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/proposal-to-deprecate-and-remove-symbol-literals/2953
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
