Scala Meeting report, 2010-06-16

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Scala Meeting 2010-06-16

People attending the meeting: Adriaan, Ingo, Miguel, Toni, Hubert, Martin,
Phil, Gilles, Lukas, Alex, Iulian, Philipp.

* Current work
- bug fixing
- more work on .msil support
- released RC4/RC5
- work on improved concat
- work on hash tries, merge function
- work on reflection library

* 2.8.0
- Functions and named args:
http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/2-8-nesting-beha...
Decision: revert to old parsing behavior, f(z = _) means f(x => z = x).
- groupBy: static type can be changed from Map to immutable.Map; will be
included in 2.8.0
- #3563: regression from 2.7: will be fixed
- NotNull bugs: there is a new -Y option
- #3420: inline warnings: patch reviewed
- owner of use cases in scaladoc were wrong. fix will be included in 2.8.0
- Goal: RC6 tomorrow

* Scaladoc
- There is a new Trac user "scaladoc_team" for all Scaladoc-related tickets

* Android
There are now many Android examples, and more detailed instructions on how
to build Android applications with Scala, thanks to Stéphane Micheloud. He
also found a better tool to reduce library size than ProGuard. His page is
at http://lamp.epfl.ch/~michelou/android, we should include this
information on the main Scala website.