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Dn_Ab on Aug 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala

I know this is a discussion on syntax but I can't help pointing out that the semantics of paritition-by and filter are very different.

Chris_Newton on Aug 22, 2012 [–]

True enough, but I figured filter was widely known and partition-by was perhaps a little esoteric. The syntactic argument would be exactly the same if you used an equivalent of partition-by in the other languages.

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