Benson Wong mostlygeek

Introduction

Method overloading sucks in Scala because it detracts from your flexibility. An implicit conversion is a feature of Scala that let's the compiler look up how to convert objects between types at compile time.

Let's say I define a method with the following signature:

def doSomething( action: Action )

Somewhere else in the code I write:

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	object Application extends Controller {

	/**
	* Just display the home page.
	*/
	def index = Action { implicit request =>
	Ok(views.html.index())
	}

	/**

	# Source accepts http/https or the protocol region:// with the host as the bucket
	# access_key_id and secret_access_key are just that
	# Note resource name has changed from s3_file to s3_aware_remote_file

	# for the eu-west-1 region:
	s3_aware_remote_file "/var/bulk/the_file.tar.gz" do
	source "s3-eu-west-1://your.bucket/the_file.tar.gz"
	access_key_id your_key
	secret_access_key your_secret
	owner "root"

	ruby_block "sync_build_from_s3" do
	action :nothing
	block do
	# latest_file contains path to the latest.txt, which lists files to sync
	file = File.new(latest_file, "r");
	run_context = Chef::RunContext.new(node, {})

	#
	# Create the directory to hold the new build files
	#

	/a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9/nonexistentfile.php
	/ads/adxmlrpc.php
	/Ads/adxmlrpc.php
	/adserver/adxmlrpc.php
	/adxmlrpc.php
	/b2evo/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
	/b2/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
	/blogs/xmlrpc.php
	/blogs/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
	/blogtest/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php

	%% Write a function start(AnAtom, Fun) to register
	%% AnAtom as spawn(Fun). Make sure your program
	%% works correctly in the case when two parallel
	%% processes simultaneously evaluate start/2. In
	%% this case, you must guarantee that one of
	%% these processes succeeds and the other fails.

	-module(ch8prob1).
	-export([start/2]).

	using System;
	using System.Collections;

	namespace CSharpFib
	{
	class MainClass
	{
	public static void Main(string[] args)
	{
	foreach (ulong x in Fibber(5)) {

	#!/bin/sh

	DIFF=`ntpdate -q pool.ntp.org \| awk '/offset ([-0-9\.]+) sec/ {i=int($10); print (i >= 0) ? i : 0 - i}'`

	# set the date if the difference is > 10 seconds
	if [ $DIFF -gt 10 ];
	then
	echo -n "Time off by $DIFF seconds. Setting date ..."
	sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org
	echo "one";

	<!DOCTYPE html5>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
	<title>Testing of Components</title>
	<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script>
	$(function() {
	// benchmark async fetching of 10 files