tag it and bag it!

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Paul Phillips <paulp [at] improving [dot] org> wrote:

Current trunk:

-rw-r--r--  1 paulp  admin  6484617 Feb 19 12:31 scala-compiler.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 paulp  admin  4658723 Feb 19 12:31 scala-library.jar

Current trunk without the $tag methods - which, as far as I can tell, are doing absolutely nothing except
contributing to object obesity:

-rw-r--r--  1 paulp  admin  6251772 Feb 19 11:48 scala-compiler.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 paulp  admin  4485078 Feb 19 11:48 scala-library.jar

Total savings: 3.7%.  Wow, sign me up for reduction surgery, stat! Counterarguments?

For what it's worth, I have no intention of ever using a global $tag method in the pattern matcher again. If it's not used anywhere else, I vote for smiting with extreme prejudice.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:12 PM, David MacIver wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Paul Phillips wrote:
>>
>> Current trunk:
>>
>> -rw-r--r--  1 paulp  admin  6484617 Feb 19 12:31 scala-compiler.jar
>> -rw-r--r--  1 paulp  admin  4658723 Feb 19 12:31 scala-library.jar
>>
>> Current trunk without the $tag methods - which, as far as I can tell, are
>> doing absolutely nothing except
>> contributing to object obesity:
>>
>> -rw-r--r--  1 paulp  admin  6251772 Feb 19 11:48 scala-compiler.jar
>> -rw-r--r--  1 paulp  admin  4485078 Feb 19 11:48 scala-library.jar
>>
>> Total savings: 3.7%.  Wow, sign me up for reduction surgery, stat!
>> Counterarguments?
>
> For what it's worth, I have no intention of ever using a global $tag method
> in the pattern matcher again. If it's not used anywhere else, I vote for
> smiting with extreme prejudice.
>

AFAIK it's not used anywhere else. So if David does not need them they can go.