Constantly amazed at the complexity and nonsense people will embrace just to avoid passing arguments to functions.
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Replying to @tpolecat @propensive
I find it funny how everyone is jumping on this tweet to make fun of OOP patterns but no one points out that this is exactly what Scala’s implicits are.
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Replying to @NicolasRinaudo @propensive
I think I was referring to extralinguistc stuff like Java DI but I don’t really remember. It’s a very old tweet!
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Replying to @tpolecat @propensive
Oh I know, but “tricks to avoid passing arguments to function” is a pretty good definition of implicits! And blame
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Replying to @NicolasRinaudo @tpolecat
I didn't check the date! I had no idea until just now that it wasn't fresh (but all too aware the last five years haven't fixed much).
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Safe to assume this'll be an evergreen tweet
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Evergreen, you say? I'd love to see @tpolecat's tweet writ large across the world's busiest shipping corridor...
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