That's what I did about 5 years ago. Perhaps something has changed since then but I believe int x = "hello" still compiles in Groovy.
Also, Scala's .NET compatibility predates Fantom so in order to copy it Martin must be even smarter than I thought. -----Original Message----- From: Russel Winder <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:33:35 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Yet another JVM lang: Extend On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 16:52 +0000, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > That's pretty much what I was trying to say. Groovy is a half-arsed Java > imitation (to me), similarly Fantom->Scala, PHP->Perl, Ruby->(Smalltalk, Perl) Ricky, If you are thinking of Groovy as a half-arsed Java imitation, you really need to actually look at the two languages and compare them. Interestingly isn't it Scala copying Fantom to be a language for the CLR? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
