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		lostmsu on June 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift impressions The author is short-sighted. He doesn't know any descent modern OO language, but tries to review Swift. Except ARC and syntax differences, it is more like a subset of F# or Scala

danellis on June 9, 2014 [–]

I don't know F#, but Scala certainly addresses all three of his issues:

1) override (also in C#, IIRC)

2) The Option type (which, being a monad, also has compositional ability null/nil doesn't have)

3) Case classes

lostmsu on June 9, 2014 | [–]

That's what I said. Swift is a subset of F#/Scala.

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