scala (was checksum for distributed debugging?)

[happi]

Bob.Smart at csiro.au wrote:

  The problem with Scala is that it doesn't have atoms.

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I don't think that this is a problem at all in Scala,
thanks to Scalas built-in quote mechanism.

Atoms in Scala are implemented in the standard library in
the Symbol class. 


Symbol.scala wrote:


/** Instances of <code>Symbol</code> can be created easily with
 *  Scala's built-in quote mechanism. For instance, the Scala term
 *  <code>'mysym</code> will invoke the constructor of the
 *  <code>Symbol</code> class in the following way:
 *  <code>new Symbol("mysym")</code>. .


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Symbols are used e.g. in Process.scala which emulates
the syntax of Erlang processes (although unfortunately
not all of the semantics.) and in NameServer.scala.
But more on this in another post...

/Happi (Erik Stenman)
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