[Haskell-cafe] Re: Dynamic binding / Scala paper

[Benjamin Franksen]

On Thursday 30 June 2005 23:21, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Franksen <benjamin.franksen at bessy.de>
> >>>>> writes:
>
>     Benjamin> Ok, Eiffel has a few holes in its type-system, doesn't
>     Benjamin> naturally integrate with Java/.Net, and doesn't support
>
> In what way? Eiffel compilers target these systems successfully.

Which Eiffel compiler allows to use Java classes directly in your Eiffel 
code, just as if they were Eiffel classes?

>     Benjamin> XML directly.
>
> How do you mean? What language DOES support XML directly? XSLT - yes
> (which is slightly more on topic here, as it is a pure functional
> language), but others?

Well, I was talking about a concrete language, didn't I? See 
http://scala.epfl.ch/docu/files/ScalaOverview.pdf

Ben