One Div Zero

This is my yak. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My yak is my best friend. It is my life. I must shave it as I shaved the ...

It's mostly pretty easy to eliminate null in a language: just replace it with Maybe/Option types. Unfortunately it's only mostly eas...

Last time I talked about how the Scala compiler currently translates try/catch expressions used as arguments to method or constructor call ...

TL;DR Scalac currently deals with try/catch on a potentially non empty stack by lifting to a def. But that can lead to more boxing of vars c...

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