OT: Re: Scala Implicits Are Everywhere

[Andy Smith]

On Friday, 13 September 2019 at 23:57:14 UTC, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Monday, 9 September 2019 at 18:16:05 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Recall Martin Odersky's great DConf keynote in 2018.
>>
>> http://janvitek.org/pubs/oopsla19b.pdf
>
> Hehe,
>
> Whenever mention of 'implicits considered dangerous' is brought 
> up in a scala context I always think back to this small piece 
> of British comedy gold.
>
> https://youtu.be/kVuCVmDWU-U?t=189
>
> ...think you need to have seen the original robocop (1987) to 
> fully appreciate the reference but I think it sums up perfectly 
> my (and many others'!) experiences with the magical world of 
> implicits in scala :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> A.


Couldn't resist - here's the original :-) Apologies there's some 
coarse language.

Cheers,

A.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORddlMjfSfk