[nem-en] Scala: what you say about it?

[Sandro Magi]

NoiseEHC wrote:
> Ok, another question:
> 
> It is one of my old ideas that there should be support for some kind of
> context oriented programming (in any language, it is older than I know
> Nemerle). So the problem it would solve that normally if you write
> components you have to pass around a lot of stuff from the caller to the
> component, and it is really frustrating to type all those parameters for
> every fucking function. [...]
> This problem is directly addressed in the Scala video so
> maybe it is important enough to have a language supported solution.

Precisely. Scala addresses it right in the type system with their notion
of mixin composition. It seems like quite a powerful technique.

Sandro