Kevin Wright

London, United Kingdom

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Age: 36

London-based Scala Advocate
Twittering as @thecoda
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How are Scala collections able to return the correct collection type from a map operation?

scala collections asked Mar 4 '11 at 23:41

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27 votes

Migrating Java to Scala

java scala migration scala-java-interop asked Oct 19 '10 at 11:06

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17 votes

What new features will be added to Scala 2.9?

scala scala-2.9 asked Oct 10 '10 at 15:25

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14 votes

Targeting Android with Scala 2.8 Trunk builds

android scala scala-2.8 asked May 3 '10 at 21:46

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7 votes

What common patterns/solutions have been established in Scala for frequently-encountered problems

design-patterns scala scala-2.8 idioms scala-collections asked Nov 25 '10 at 12:22

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5 votes

Simplifying type annotations

scala types asked Jan 27 '11 at 9:17

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5 votes

Given a value of some path-dependent type, how can I get an instance of the “container”?

scala scala-2.8 asked Feb 7 '11 at 21:29

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Frameworks comparation: Lift, Play and Wicket

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Scala pattern matching keep saying “match is not exhaustive!”

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Syntax sugar: _* for treating Seq as method parameters

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Google guava vs Scala collection framework comparison

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What high-level languages can I use to employ GPU computations acceleration?

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Scala filtering tuple list

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How to format strings in Scala?

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