Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[Walter Bright]

On 4/5/2014 6:28 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el  5 de April a las 11:04 me escribiste:
>> Of course, you can hide all this in a template.
>
> Well, you can "emulate" enums as they are now with structs too, so that
> doesn't change anything in the argument about why to provide syntax
> sugar for one and not the other.


The argument for syntactic sugar is it must show a very large benefit over using 
a template.

Having special syntax for everything makes the language unusable.