override def validations = validPriority _ :: super.validations This is a more of a comment about Scala than one about Lift - this does look cryptic to me. And this is just one of the simpler syntax that confuses people, who are new to the language. And I'm one of them.
I understand that you don't have to learn all the tricks/syntax to start coding in Scala but you do have to understand it when you read source code of libraries written by someone with much more advanced language skills. In David's book he says "After more than two years of coding Scala, ... My brain has finally stopped hurting." This sounds like a very high barrier to entry. I'm just wondering why Scala has to be so complicated. I'm sure a lot of things in Scala have their reasons but at the mean time I also suspect that many of the odd things are there to reduce typing, which is advertised as one of the advantages of this language - conciseness. (I could be very wrong due to my lack of understanding.) If the latter is true, I feel that I'd rather type a little more to make the code easier to read. Just feeling a little frustrated learning Scala. I think it's much easier learning Java. Not much surprise. Not sure if anyone shares my experience (and opinion, if there is one.) On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Randinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://localhost3000.de/2009/10/a-quick-glance-at-lift/ > > The site above is a blog post from a Rails developer, he had some good > and bad things to say about Lift and since I do not know enough to > debate with him I thought I'd post it here. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" 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/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
