Scala macros: what are they, how do they work & who uses them from my ast Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 30 min 51 sec ✓ Published: 15-Sep-2013
Description: Macros are a brand new feature of Scala 2.10. In the presentation I would like to explain why were they added to the language, show step by step how to write your own simple macro and show some libraries, which already use macros to implement functionalities, which were not possible before.nnMacros [1] are one of the new features in Scala 2.10. So far they are marked as experimental, but I think nobody has doubts that they will stay there for good. Introducing macros was quite controversial, as
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