Scala Meeting report 2011/09/27

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Scala Meeting 2011/09/27

Attending

Eugene: reading up on macro’s, has prepared talk (https://raw.github.com/xeno-by/kepler/master/papers/2011-09-27-ProjectKepler.pdf)
Miguel: CLR generics, improvements on 3address-intermediate form
Martin: reflection
Lukas: More implementing of state effect checking
Adriaan: halved compilation time of quick.comp when using virtualising patmat (by inlining flatMap/orElse as the corresponding if-then-else),  virtualising new (row-types) + typed selectDynamic on rows (with Nada&Grzegorz), dependent method types
Toni: 2.8.2 is out; scala-ide.org migration
Hubert: back to square one with error trees, teaching
Heather: Fixed some issues with custom thread pools, lots of semester project meetings, translated 3 weeks of Advanced Programming
Manohar: delite benchmarking (reading up)
Nada: wrestling with virtual new (we want to use it for JS literals)
Grzegorz: Scala+GWT+IDE, new release today of Scala+GWT, me and Nada wrestling with virtual new (we want to use it for JS literals)
Phil: wrapping up vector concat paper
Philipp: Working on Delite profiler and source contexts. Gave talk on DSL debugging in Kunle's group meeting. Reviewing last bits of actors book.
Josh: sbt build can now resolve external dependencies (checkout scalacheck from github and compile it), community extension libraries Vlad

Discussion

Scala+GWT demo in Eclipse

Grzegorz made some nice progress on Scala+GWT, and made it work with Eclipse IDE.

Eugene’s Macro talk

https://raw.github.com/xeno-by/kepler/master/papers/2011-09-27-ProjectKepler.pdf

JIRA issues

Lukas will look at this with Vojin this week, concretely updating the tools to the latest version. HTTP logging is enabled now.