[plt-scheme] The problem with Scala (OT, sorry)

People who are seriously thinking about using Scala as a teaching language need to think harder about examples like this:

scala> (List(List(3,4),List(4,5))).foldLeft (List())({(a,b)=>a:::b}) 
<console>:5: error: type mismatch;
 found   : List[Int]
 required: List[Nothing]
       (List(List(3,4),List(4,5))).foldLeft (List())({(a,b)=>a:::b})
                                                              ^

scala> 

That is: the type checker couldn't figure out what kind of thing (List()) was, so it conservatively decided that it was List[Nothing].  Then, you get an error at some arbitrarily distant location. You can solve this by adding a type annotation to List(). Bflegg. 

(Are things like this inappropriate on plt-scheme?)

John



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